Top 1200 Words Of Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

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.'

'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the last words of Jesus. 'It is finished' is a cry of victory.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

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.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

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

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.

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

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

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.

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

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.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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

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

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

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.

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

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

When you're facing all the issues of life and you don't know what to do, accept the fact that you are human. We all are. We don't have the capacity to understand Almighty God. But you know what? We know Jesus Christ. He's the wisdom of God. And He put His Holy Spirit in us. So having access to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, we can face the challenges of today with the wisdom of God.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

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

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

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.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

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

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.

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

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

I've spent years studying words. Linguistics, language, the power of words, the power of phrases on human beings. All of that. It's part of my, almost obsessive, fascination. It turns out that there are some keys that we all need to know about how conversations impact us, because they do at a chemical level. There are certain things that if we learned this, it would totally change our interactions with others, and that's the following. There are certain words that have a feeling of, "I love you, I care for you, you're in my tribe."

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

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?

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

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

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.

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

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.

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

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

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

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

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

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?