God pity them and God pity us all who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For the saddest words of mouth or pen are these four words,'it might have been.
Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.”- Near Kin
It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?" "Not the point.
He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.
We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.
Gratitude and love are always multiplied when you give freely. It is an infinite source of contentment and prosperous energy.
The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.
We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.
Isn’t it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?
Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.
We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.
