- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was all about touching people and influencing people, I always been that type of person. I was the one teaching people things, I just always had a way with my words and I always spoke with substance.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading was my hobby, my sport and my activity of choice. It was the prime pleasure of my days, an unfailing escape from whatever realities were distressing me, and the only source of pride I knew, other vanities lying beyond my grasp. I couldn't do anything else well, but I could do words.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have power, and especially in the realm of beauty, how we speak about ourselves is important.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in church, so every time I say certain words, I'm like, 'I'm going to get in trouble.'
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- Nov 07, 2020