- Fire
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- 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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are the money of fools.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
- Nov 07, 2020
Be not a slave of words.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020