Top 1200 Words And Actions Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If children read 1 million words in a year, atl least 1,000 words will be added to their vocabulary.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a few words with him?

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Bringing words to life, storyboards show you things that words can't.

Donald Trump's words are are not funny, his words are poisonous.

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

Where focus goes, energy flows. And where energy flows, whatever you're focusing on grows. In other words, your life is controlled by what you focus on. That's why you need to focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. When you next find yourself in a state of uncertainty, resist your fear. Shift your focus toward where you want to go and your actions will take you in that direction.

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

Words matter. Especially if you're kicking someone's ass in words with friends.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

For many, 'rehearsing' means going over the words in your head. That's not good enough say the words aloud.