- Assassins
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
- Beautiful Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Customs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020