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Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points — Yoshiko Sakurai

You don't use words like 'kind of interested' to describe how I feel about you. — Melina Marchetta

I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much. — Lia Ices

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. — Octavia E. Butler

The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent. — Charles Caleb Colton

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people. — Huey Newton

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful. — Margaret Wise Brown

Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all. — Candace Knoebel

To leave a whisper of myself in the world, my ghost, a magna opera of words. — Bernardine Evaristo

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. — Richard Mitchell

You must live the life of your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Words are mere tools of the mind — Joshua Wright

Part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument — Julius Lester

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. — D.H. Lawrence

The only failure is giving up. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words. — Randeep Hooda

There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times. — Justin Cronin

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it. — Rob Bell

You resist my words because of your own insecurities and the fear that right now you could be the God that you truly are. — Jamila Hammad

In calmness and confidence, thy strength manifest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes the acutest of agonies are difficult to find expression in the given vocabulary: words fail but pain prevails. — Girdhar Joshi

Love is the strength of the spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. — Thomas A Kempis

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong. — Amber Tamblyn

Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction. — Haim Harari

In soul of every newborn baby,
words are waiting to be written. — Toba Beta

So little of what anything means comes through words. — Andre Alexis

It doesn't matter how green a blade of grass is expected to be, when it's already smashed beneath the feet. — Munia Khan

That would have been the worst kind of violation, to read you words uninvited. — David Levithan

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future. — Archibald Marwizi

Life is enduring endeavour — Lailah Gifty Akita

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

Well, in the words of Keith Sweat, whatever you got, you should 'make it last forever, — K.L. Brady

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative. — Felix Frankfurter

We buy into the saving work of Jesus big-time, but we dodge his words and his life as prototypical for the authentic Christian life. — Hugh Halter

The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true. — Neil Gaiman

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung. — Neil Peart

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman

The object of words is to conceal thoughts. — Adrian Barnes

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates

To derive pleasure from a novel is to enjoy the act of departing from words and transforming these things into images in our mind. — Orhan Pamuk

Without a vision, we are easy destructed by the storm's of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. I love you, too. — Lauren DeStefano

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. — Beatrice Warde

Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language. — Shannon Phillips

Live each day as if it was your last day on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. — Emma Donoghue

Words full of kindness; they are noble truth and eternal light, on the dew drops of the innocent morning. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I started reading the Bible. All of a sudden the words jumped off the page and became real. — Austin Peck

And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks. — Jeffrey Eugenides

We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life — Bangambiki Habyarimana

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The real virtue is not to be free from desires but to be content with what you have. — Abhijit Naskar

To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite. — C.J. Ducasse

The right word said at right time is sacred utterance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We must keep together, we belong to each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind. — Jacqueline Woodson

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

Words, the acid-bath of words. — Lawrence Durrell

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. — Ugo Betti

God's anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don't open the Word, you're stupid, because that's where the words of life are. — Andrew Wommack

May we celebrate the sacredness of Christmas with joy, faith and hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's no rerun of life. Rejoice while there's breathe. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time. — Alan Lightman

If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could? — Lauren Wolk

Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water. — Khaled Talib

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln

In the pages of a book, we are in paradise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. — Antonin Artaud

The science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable. — Aristotle.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

In other words, they believe it's wiser to focus more on increasing sales to a smaller percentage of your existing customers than to find new ones. — Seth Godin

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens. — Alberto Cairo

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings. — Micah Mattix

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. — Roger Zelazny

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary. — Paul Valery

Will the words end, I ask
whenever I remember to.
Nope, my sister says, all of five years old now,
and promising me
infinity. — Jacqueline Woodson

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel better thus impacting our decisions and actions. — Maddy Malhotra

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs. — Denise Fleming

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett

Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. — Audre Lorde

A body is just a bunch of parts, after all, but words can reveal who you really are. — Emma Lauren

someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right. — Umberto Eco

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group. — Henry Bonilla

I want to tell her how much she's become the center of my being. But I can't. The words won't come. — Simone Elkeles

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. — Jeffrey Archer

And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words — Jojo Moyes

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing. — Michael Buckley

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. — Hugh Prather

Giving is the sacred-gift that creates wealth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh darling, your only too wild, to those whom are to tame, don't let opinions change you. — Nikki Rowe

Hope. It is the frailest of words. — Susan Fletcher