- Science
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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.
- Envisaged
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.
- Certain Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.
- Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
- Illness
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- Nov 07, 2020