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177 quotesWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Words
Abigail Adams
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Kindness
Aeschylus
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Action
African Proverb
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Words of love, are works of love.
Words
William R. Alger
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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Speakers and Speaking
Arabian Proverb
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By words the mind is winged.
Words
Aristophanes
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Death and Dying
W. H. Auden
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard
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Words are all we have.
Words
Samuel Beckett
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Words
Henry Ward Beecher
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Kisses and Kissing
Ingrid Bergman
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Techniques
Leonard Bernstein
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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Gifts
Bible
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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
Anger
Bible
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Compliments
Bible
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
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I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.
Speakers and Speaking
Josh Billings
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There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Brevity
Josh Billings
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These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.
Affirmation
Claude M. Bristol
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Example
Phillips Brooks
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Prayer
John Bunyan
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
Hypocrisy
Lord Byron
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Words
Orson Scott Card
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Speakers and Speaking
Cato The Elder
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun