[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular ...
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typi...
The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misun...
What we're doing, or, I should say, what doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people's brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters. Tie them up just long enough to slip an instruction past. ...
She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.' 'Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them...
Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate ...
Samantha: It's like I'm reading a book... and it's a book I deeply love. But I'm reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you... and the words of our story... but ...
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of ...
Unhappy is a nice word.
With tender words you have less luck with a woman than with jewels.
Words that come from the heart stay warm three winters long.
With a walking-stick you reach many lands; you reach many more with words.
Soft words butter no parsnips, but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either.
One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.
Once a word has been uttered it belongs to those who hear it.
Not all the words that were ever uttered are worth weighing on golden scales.
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
Go small, go simple, go now
But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!
