Words
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
As I read more and more — and it was not all verse, by any means — my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end'. Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
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