Top 1200 Words And Actions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

The Super Bowl is something you can't put into words. It's such a great feeling. I wish I could put it into words, but you just have to be there to know the experience.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.

Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

I know pictures say a thousand words, but they also don't say millions of other words that need to be said.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

So when you're talking about lyrics in the context of music, it's not just about what the words mean, and what you were thinking about when you wrote it. It's not cognitive in that same way. It's almost like music turns words into touch, which is hard to describe, like the feeling of your shirt on your back. It's a pretty delicate thing to try to put into words. You just feel it.

We've all been hurt by words before. So before you speak, think about how your words might affect someone else.

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

I think technology is such that we can reach new heights but we need some of the basics of the pre-technological age. It's counter-productive to be able to type a hundred words a minute but not know what the words mean.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and say, 'Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little'.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

God’s words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God’s words lead to life.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

When I rapped for 'Manto', I used cuss words and no one objected because it was an adult movie. I feel cuss words are also a way of expression.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

Speak God's words over your circumstances today. Speak His words in faith and watch Him move!

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Rapping was kind of hard. It's so many words. When you sing you can kind of stretch the words out. I didn't have to write as much as everybody else.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference.

If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it.

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Mathematics is so much easier than words mathematics makes things clear that words merely muddle and confuse and mess up.