Top 1200 Wrong Words Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

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

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."

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

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

Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

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

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.

Some people think it's wrong, being single isn't right. But if you hurt the right person, you'll be wrong all your life.

The State of New York City says in defense you can use as much force as you feel like the person that is coming for you with. So if I'm wrong than the law is wrong. That's really the way I felt.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

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.

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

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.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

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.

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?

'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.

What's wrong with the auto industry isn't that it failed to create jobs. What's wrong is that it emphasizes jobs over general growth itself.

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.

Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

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.

Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.

Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

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.

whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other.

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

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

Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.

What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long words.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.

I will go to the ends of the earth for you, but if you wrong me or if you wrong somebody I love, then you're dead to me forever.

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

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?

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.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

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

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.

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.'