“ Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.". ”
- Malcolm De Chazal- Copy
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“ My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all.". ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless. ”
- Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker- Copy
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“ Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”
- Katherine Dunham- Copy
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“ It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?". ”
- Pooh’s Little Instruction Book- Copy
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“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society. ”
- Roy Jenkins- Copy
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“ Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ”
- Guy Debord- Copy
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“ I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
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“ The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'. ”
- Isaac Asimov- Copy
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“ It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ The blend of fiction, bigotry and jingoism became known as 'yellow journalism.' Later, the phrase was shortened to 'journalism.'. ”
- Jon Stewart- Copy
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“ Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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