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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing. — Malcolm Bradbury

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match. — Nathaniel Branden

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write. — Paris Hilton

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high?
Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you. — Alice Hoffman

I mean ... your words are really the only things that are rightfully yours. Who else would know them better? — Amy Lignor

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. — Don DeLillo

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. — Mahatma Gandhi

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different. — Earl Sweatshirt

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. — Norton Juster

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything. — Richard Flanagan

Words can't express what you mean to me. — Puff Daddy

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself. — Joseph Wambaugh

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent. — Samuel Beckett

I choose my words carefully. Don't say it unless you mean it. You never know when it might be the last thing you ever say. — J.M. Darhower

You cannot say, 'No, Lord,' and mean both words; one annuls the other. If you say no to Him, then He is not your Lord. — D. James Kennedy

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing — Ahdaf Soueif

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie

In other words, being born with a certain ability does not mean we are obliged to use it, and in rare cases, we are obliged not to. All — Ransom Riggs

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. — Trick Daddy

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. — Theodore Sturgeon

Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended. — Daniel Abraham

Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know. — Anna Quindlen

The simplest words,
we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating. — David Levithan

Words can help. In the right situation. If they're the wrong words. I mean, the right words. No, Ido mean the wrong words. — Robert Shea

No one really knows what words mean these days. — Mark Doten

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about. — Ray Bradbury

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away. — Jerry Pournelle

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Rachel snatched her hand back. Sorry, I forgot the rules. Everything's a joke until it's not, and words don't mean anything until you want them to. — Kit Rocha

Responsibility means to perform our service properly,with proper attitude, behavior and words. — Radhanath Swami

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. — Craig Brown

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean. — Ernst Toller

There are so many unbelievable words ... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word. — Brett Hull

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic. — Steven Furtick

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words. — Ruth St. Denis

My favorite word is existentialism. I can't say it and I'm not quite sure what it means. — Geri Halliwell

I love you and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.-Loren Hale — Krista Ritchie

Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment. — Ramesh S Balsekar

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant. — Lewis Carroll

Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand. — Alan W. Watts

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. — Adam Clarke

But what it all boils down to is three words that don't mean nearly enough ... I love you. — S.C. Stephens

He makes me turn,
he makes me toss;
his words mean mine
are at a loss. — Lang Leav

It's three words "Alter your life" which mean change your life. It's not so easy, but it's not so hard everyone can do it. — Deyth Banger

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot. — Christian

Learn your lines ... plant your feet ... look the other actor in the eye ... say the words ... mean them. — James Cagney

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish. — George W. Bush

Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what. — Laura Antoniou

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. — Thomas Sowell

I love you, Nick," Kelly whispered. "No matter what those words meant before, we know what they mean now. They're ours now. Just ours. — Abigail Roux

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. — Jean-Paul Sartre

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mean words
Once upon a time,
I loved you
But I will never
I swear. — Arzum Uzun

Take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead. — Scott Bradfield

There are tones of voices that mean more than words. — Robert Frost

Words without action mean nothing. I'll show you. — Gena Showalter

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

Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another. — Andre Alexis

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger

INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting. — Adolph Malan

Your promise means more than the words you use to give it. — Ron Kaufman

It's just sewing words together. Random words in any order. It doesn't even have to mean anything. It just has to mean something to you. — Katie Kacvinsky

Ty, no one could have expected that,' Emma said. 'I mean, Julian said some words, and boom, Hell's tractor beam. — Cassandra Clare

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) — Jean-Luc Godard

Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to a dead man. — Raven

Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me. — Eula Biss

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted. — Frederick Lenz

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle. — Radhanath Swami

I love you," he says again, "and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do. — Krista Ritchie

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home. — Mother Teresa

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful. — Paul Nitze

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind. — Jeff Shaara

Be respectful of words. They mean something. — Katherine Anne Porter

Words mean nothing. — Lynn Raye Harris

Words mean nothing
Actions are everything
Expect nothing
Appreciate everything — Patrick Cruz

You mean less to me than the dog st I scraped off the bottom of my shoe! — Emma Paul

Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean. — Anne Frasier

Silence can hurt worse than mean words. — Shelley Coriell

Ah, yes, well that's the problem with the English language, isn't it? All the words mean different things. — Alex Shvartsman

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. — Pythagoras

Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything. — Markus Zusak

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life. — Novak Djokovic

A poet in my mind, needs to make a difference or his words don't mean a damn thing. — Jose Gouveia

There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work. — Brian Morton

They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar. — Anne Ursu

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things? — Ahdaf Soueif

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green. — Adam Ant

My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words. — Eyden I.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly. — Elizabeth George

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything. — Mod Sun

A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. Of — Jim Butcher

In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it. — Michael Keaton

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. — Virginia Petrucci