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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone enjoys your batting, and someone, your humour. Since I'm not batting any longer, I can at least say some words, so people enjoy and give me compliments, too.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
- Haunting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020