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"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." »David McIntosh
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World" »Alfred North Whitehead
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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble." »Peter S. Jennison
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"If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: 'I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.' If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane." »Ramtha
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"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words." »Author Unknown
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"When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked." »Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-25-05
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"Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber." »Ugo Betti
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"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life." »Frederika Bremer
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them." »John Ruskin
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"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth." »Chief Joseph
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." »Norman R. Augustine
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"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." »Winston Churchill
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"The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words." »Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal,
Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling;
The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel." »George Du Maurier
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"I understand a fury in your words, But not the words." »William Shakespeare
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"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words." »William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 4 scene 2
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"The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you." »A. L. Kitselman
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"Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." »John Harold
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"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God." »Leo Tolstoy
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"They were going to die. They knew it, and their last words were I love you. Even in great pain, their last words were of love... People who could have saved themselves and they ran back in to save others instead. If humanity is capable of that, how can I lose hope in humanity?" »Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
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"words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Some people never say the words 'I love you' It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told." »Paul Simon
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"The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?" »Eknath Easwaran
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"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below words without thoughts never to heaven go." »William Shakespeare
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