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if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.
- Charles Dickens
The words were still in his hearing as just spoken—distinctly in his hearing as ever spoken words had been in his life—when the weary passenger started to the consciousness of daylight, and found that the shadows of the night were gone.
- Charles Dickens
All the six hundred and fifty-eight members in the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; who are strong lovers no doubt, but of their country only, which makes all the difference; for in a passion of that kind (which is not always returned), it is the custom to use as many words as possible, and express nothing whatever.
- Charles Dickens
A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.
- Robert Frost
The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong.
- James Montgomery Boice
We looked too long for God and truth through words alone. The fruit for humanity has been rather limited, it seems to me - especially when I observe every day the extraordinary amount of unhappy and angry people in well educated and 'religious' countries.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.
- Germany Kent
For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.
- Bill Bradley
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- Oscar Wilde
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.
- Confucius
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
- Cormac McCarthy