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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
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
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
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
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
Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.
— Thea Van Diepen
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
— Vaclav Havel
the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let others take care of the details." That, in a few words, is the meaning of delegating work and responsibility.
— Meir Liraz
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
— Charlotte Lamb
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
To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
— William Morris
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
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
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
Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
— Barack Obama
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
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
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 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
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 happiest people on Earth are the ones who know love.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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 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
Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.
— Shannon Phillips
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
We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
— Elizabeth George
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
— John R. Dallas Jr.
He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.
— Rachel Joyce
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
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
Experience is beyond knowledge, words and speech.It is experience which shows us the real meaning of life. — Gian Kumar
Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give youalmost apart from their meaning
a thrill like music? — C.S. Lewis
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
Silence is not absence of words. Silence is the space where words arise and dissolve. Without silence, words have no meaning
— Rashmit Kalra
The pieces of my sister's body. I stood there, letting the meaning of those words sink in.
— Otsuichi
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
