Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] Quote:Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.[Robert Frost] Quote:Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.[Robert Frost] Quote:Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[Dave Barry] Quote:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[Dave Barry] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.[Mark Twain] Quote:I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.[Mark Twain] Quote:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King] Quote:When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'[Stephen King] Quote:A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.[George Eliot] Quote:Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.[Edward Abbey] Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything![Steve Martin] Quote:I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.[William F. Buckley] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.[Author Unknown] Quote:He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:What's another word for thesaurus?[Steven Wright] Quote:A man only curses because he doesn't know the words to express what is on his mind.[Malcolm X] Quote:The curve is more powerful than the sword.[Mae West] Quote:It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.[Andrew Jackson] Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.[George Orwell] Quote:I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:When ideas fail, words come in very handy.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'[Dorothy Parker] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:Grasp the subject, the words will follow. [Cato the Elder] Quote:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] Quote:Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. [Henry James] Quote:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. [Henry Miller] Quote:Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. [Pearl Buck] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. [Anonymous] Quote:The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One kind word can warm three winter months. [Japanese proverb] Quote:Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. [Ann Landers] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote:Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words. [Aristophanes] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Actions lie louder than words. [Confucius] Quote:He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. [Confucius] Quote:We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. [Anna Sewell] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. [Herman Melville] Quote:So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. [Homer] Quote:The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. [Homer] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Quote:Use soft words and hard arguments. [English Proverb] Definitions of: wordDefinition: The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.Definition: Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. Definition: Talk; discourse; speech; language. Definition: Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular. Definition: Signal; order; command; direction. Definition: Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise. Definition: Verbal contention; dispute. Definition: A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence. Definition: To express in words; to phrase. Definition: To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words. Definition: To flatter with words; to cajole. |
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