Quotes of: Simple-words Keyword

A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not linear, like language. Compared to the fluidity of words, a building is atrociously clumsy, but it can be lived and inhabited as books ...

Why We Build

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Where There is Light: Insight and Inspiration for Meeting Life's Challenges

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

To Whom it May Concern

A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like and and wait to spell from her pen.

Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively

I’d heard he had started a fistfight in one of the seedier local taverns because someone had insisted on saying the word “utilize” instead of “use.

The Wise Man's Fear

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

Waiting for the Flood

It's the living that turn and chase the dead. The long bones and skulls are tumbled from their shrouds, and words like stones thrust into their rattling mouths: we edit their writings, we rewrite their lives.

Wolf Hall

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

Wish I Was Here

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

Word of God and the Mind of Man

Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God.

Word of God and the Mind of Man

When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Words to Ponder About Life, Love and Men

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Whisperings of the Dragon; Shamanic techniques to awaken your Primal Power

Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.

Write like no one is reading

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?

Words of Radiance

Brightness,” the man said as she stepped up to him, “we aren't what you think we are.” “No,” Shallan replied. “You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

Words of Radiance

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in. And eaten their dinners.

Words of Radiance

What you did tonight was clever,” Wit said. “You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

Words of Radiance

Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.

On Writing

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Words of Radiance

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything," I whispered back.

Wide Spaces