“ A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ”
- Robert Southey- Copy
“ The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.''. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
“ The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
“ Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually. ”
- Rose Saperstein- Copy
“ The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
“ God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you.". ”
- Billy Graham- Copy
“ Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word — heed well! — this mine and thine. ”
- Angelus Silesius- Copy
“ A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
“ In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
“ Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
“ He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
“ Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly- they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
“ Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise.". ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
“ Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
“ Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love — to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
“ The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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