Quotes of: Words Keyword

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Beninese

He who heeds the first word of his wife must listen forever to the second.

Bosnian

An arrow can be pulled out of a wound, but a hurtful word stays forever in your heart.

Iranian

He who carries the word "no" with him will never be poor even when he is old.

Myanmar

A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again.

Russian

When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.

Yiddish

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

The Carnivorous Carnival

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

A Dish of Orts

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Dracula

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

The Dispossessed

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Diving Into the Wreck

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Eat, Pray, Love

I've learned far too much to know everything.

Everyone Agrees: Book I: Words, Ideas, and a Universal Morality

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Embassytown

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

First Snow on Fuji

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Fanny's First Play

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

The Fridgularity

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

Being Human