Top 1200 Words Of Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

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

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.

The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

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

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

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

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.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

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.

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

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?

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Sometimes love is best expressed through service. Words are great, but when you walk in love, your commitment must be more than words.

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.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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.

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.

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

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

The yoga of discrimination can never be put into words, since the entire yoga exists beyond 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.

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.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

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

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.'

'Broadway' is one of the big American words. It's exciting to be given the chance to rattle around in one of the big words.

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.

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.

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.

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.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

I believe that when we sing, we worship twice. We express our thoughts into words, and our words into song.

We think not in words but in shadows of words.

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

Words matter, words have import.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

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.

I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I do,’ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. ‘I do,’ he vowed.

Last words are only words.

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

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.'

The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.

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

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.