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Quotes about Word


Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold Geneen

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold Geneen

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Edward Young

Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word, That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.

Unattributed Author

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.

Robert Frost

He plays o' th' viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.

William Shakespeare

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Herman Melville

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

G. K. Chesterton

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.

Robert Isaiah

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Louis Brandeis

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.

Helen Adams Anonymous

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.

Larry Flynt

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

John Dryden

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.

Buddha

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.

Herbert Spencer

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

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