Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean. - Theodor W. Adorno
Words should be weighed not counted. - Yiddish Proverb
Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. - Dejan Stojanovic
Words spoken are like eggs broken. - Sheri Glewen
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through. - Douglas Adams
Words were too clumsy, sometimes; treacherous, too, always trying to twist around and mean something slightly different. - K. J. Parker
Words which enlighten some darken others. - Edward Counsel
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. - Herbert Hoover
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Words. So powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul, or liberate it. They can shatter dreams, or energize them. They can obstruct connection, or invite it. They can create defences or melt them. We have to use words wisely. - Unknown
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. - Doris Lessing
Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order. - Bertrand Russell
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts. - Robert Fulghum
You can stroke people with words. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak. - Don Delillo
You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow – leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it. - Conrad Aiken
Your words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one. - Unknown
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