Quotes of: Words Keyword

To Whom It May Concern-- Only four words of advice: It can be done.

Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

The Forgotten Garden

what's the point of a promise anyway? How can we expect people to stick to their word about anything when the world around us is so arbitrary, unreliable, and senseless?

Forever, Interrupted

Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow - not anything you could truly feel.

The Forty Rules of Love

We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.

Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives

Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spoken.... "The more they're and and ,in specific, consistent combinations.

Fangirl

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

Father Crow and Other Poems

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose garden. My words echo thus, in your mind

Four Quartets

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

Fearless

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...

A Familiar Rain

...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...

A Familiar Rain

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

A Familiar Rain

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought.

First Grave on the Right

...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

A Familiar Rain

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

A Familiar Rain

...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...

A Familiar Rain

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

The Fault in Our Stars

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

The Flying Troutmans

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

The Godfather

a few words spoken beneath the moon, love may be, but I write your name in the celestial dust that lingers in the air, above the veilchenblau roses, callow and pale

the ghost dancers