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Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words. — Sorin Cerin

Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid. — K.J. Kilton

And you will never know what a battle
I 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

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. — Rumi

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

The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown. — Steven Cuoco

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

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C.S. Lewis

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

That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words. — Bobby Bowden

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

Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And — Claire Cameron

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

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. — Sol LeWitt

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

Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning. — Sorin Cerin

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

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. — Mason Cooley

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

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams

Love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. — Nicholas Sparks

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

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning. — E.B. White

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

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. — George Eliot

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

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words
only and only if life have put and made us requiring them. — Toba Beta

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. — Sorin Cerin

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

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning. — Stephen Young

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. — Henry David Thoreau

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks. — Loren Eiseley

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

Fear is just one of the many words I don't know the meaning of. — John Wayne

You believe the sun will reappear after a stormy day, so why is it so hard to believe, you'll experience happiness after every heartache. — Nikki Rowe

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 you
almost 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 investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. — Antisthenes

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

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves. — George Eliot

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain. — Javan

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game — Rachel Cohn

We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it. — Anthony Marra