Meaning Of Words Quotes
Collection of top 98 famous quotes about Meaning Of Words
Meaning Of Words Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Meaning Of Words quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
And you will never know what a battleI fought to keep the meaning of my words
Solid with the world we were making. — Ted Hughes
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
Better than a thousand sayingsMade up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it. — Anonymous
Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.
— Austin Sarat
I'm Emma. I'm here to make you see the meaning of your life. Her exalted words were totally conquered by her dragging tone and lack of eye contact.
— Debra Anastasia
And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, I love you
— Cat Stevens
Marrakesh is translated from the words Mur N'Akush in the Berber language meaning "Land of God.
— Jake Tour
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
— Bell Hooks
Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
— Katherine Mansfield
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
— William Wordsworth
In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
— Bobby Bowden
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
— Ernest Holmes
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
— Robert Smithson
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
— Muhammad Iqbal
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
— Sanford Meisner
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as no one is asking.
— Katha Pollitt
Sometimes, we do not need a lot of words to convey meaning. For example, imagine a lovely sunset.
— Richard Gentle
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
— Charlotte Lamb
It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.
— Felix Alba-Juez
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
— William Morris
Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
— Lewis Carroll
Let others take care of the details." That, in a few words, is the meaning of delegating work and responsibility.
— Meir Liraz
I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!
— Lewis Carroll
the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.
— Thea Van Diepen
Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
— Barack Obama
The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into.
— Chris Prentiss
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
— Wilson Follett
If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?
— Ava Dellaira
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
— Maya Angelou
The happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
— Vaclav Havel
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
— Malidoma Patrice Some
In words am I born?In words will I die? — Avijeet Das
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
— Gilles Deleuze
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.
— Taylor Swift
He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.
— Rachel Joyce
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
— John R. Dallas Jr.
Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
— Elizabeth George
God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
— Gautama Buddha
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
— Patricia A. McKillip
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
— Mary Balogh
Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
— Shannon Phillips
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give youalmost apart from their meaning
a thrill like music? — C.S. Lewis
Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.
— Orville Schell
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
The pieces of my sister's body. I stood there, letting the meaning of those words sink in.
— Otsuichi
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
— Edmond Jabes
Silence is not absence of words. Silence is the space where words arise and dissolve. Without silence, words have no meaning
— Rashmit Kalra
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
— Cormac McCarthy
When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.
— Javan
Experience is beyond knowledge, words and speech.It is experience which shows us the real meaning of life. — Gian Kumar
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
— Marcel Duchamp
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
— Khalil Gibran
