Words of love, are works of love. —William R. Alger More about this quote Tags: love love words words work work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. —Roland Barthes More about this quote Tags: words language desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: words knowledge facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. —Émile de Girardin More about this quote Tags: power words change defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Think of a word as a pendulum instead of a fixed entity. A word can sweep by your ear and by its very sound suggest hidden meanings, preconscious associations. Listen to these words: blood, tranquil, democracy. You know what they mean literally but you have associations with those words that are cultural, as well as your own personal associations. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Tags: words meaning democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words are loaded pistols. —Jean-Paul Sartre More about this quote Tags: words guns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. —Patrick Ness in A Monster Calls More about this quote Tags: action life words writing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: friendship words meaning language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. —Alfred Lord Tennyson More about this quote Tags: words soul nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A picture is a poem without words. —Horace More about this quote Tags: words poetry art photography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: friends silence enemies words Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet. —Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead More about this quote Tags: words world language feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So the lover must struggle for words. —T. S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: love words Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound. —Constance Wagner More about this quote Tags: words safety sound Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email