- 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
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Nov 07, 2020