The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words are different from the peeps of baby birds, but is there any differe...
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Sow the right words! Think the good thought.
I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!
Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters. Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.
Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever “that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.
About 83.3% of the word BRIGHT consists of the word RIGHT, so RIGHT living guarantees a BRIGHT future
But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Christopher Gardner: [about the spelling mistakes in the graffiti of a building] It's not H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-S-S Happiness is spelled with an "I" instead of a "Y" Christopher: Oh, okay. Is "Fuck" spelled right? Christopher Gardner: Um, yes. "Fuck" is spel...
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
2 Timothy 3:16 says the speaker, instructs us, to draw from the Word of God for doctrine – what is right. He instructs us to draw from the Bible for reproof – pointing out what is wrong – as well as correction that will tell people how to get r...
