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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. — Alfred North Whitehead

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time. — Daido Moriyama

Should is my all time least favorite word. It's this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves. — Frank Beddor

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money. — Eduardo Galeano

We die a day at a time — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Whenever you feel exhausted, take time to relax, refresh and recharge. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I started to think about how words and stories are time beings, too, — Ruth Ozeki

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. — Franz Lehar

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning ... — Fay Weldon

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. — Francis Bacon

At this time of sadness, there are no words to say, My heart is full of sympathy, for you and your family today. — Susan Smith

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

Time is a tyrant, words our last and only weapons. — Lyndsay Faye

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing. — Robert Barry

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words ... since a long time ago. — Susan Trott

I take criticism to heart. The words hit me literally and it hurts. It can take me a long time to recover from it. — Tina J. Richardson

I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them. — Lauren Myracle

Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone. — Bette Lee Crosby

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. — Wole Soyinka

By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them. — Margaret Atwood

May all your problems be fictional and of your own devising, and may it be a very long time until you come to pen the words 'the end'. — The Detection Club

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. — Homer

Misfortunes, blessings, I have no time to pick my words, I am in a hurry to be done. And yet no, I am in no hurry. — Samuel Beckett

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

Be patient and wait for due harvest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The "right time' is now. Go onward and fulfill your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A man who eats his words is a man who lacks what it takes to speak his piece in this day and age, and in time to come. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Best thing is to get the words down every day. And it is time to start now. — John Steinbeck

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time. — Stanley Fish

Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage. — Dan Bejar

But you, Daniel, keep these words secret and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam about, and knowledge will increase. — Anonymous

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference. — Yasmin Mogahed

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

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time. — Terry Pratchett

You're going to be happy. I promise." He kissed her again, and then he said the words she didn't want to hear. "It's time. — Elizabeth Finn

No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords. — William Shakespeare

He mostly told me stories at night-time, in the near darkness of the room, and I gradually burrowed into the world his words created. — Chigozie Obioma

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. — G.H. Hardy

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today. — Suzanne Collins

Lord thank you for granting us right words to speak and write at the right time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All times are connected; past, present and future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a time what the words were. — Cyndi Goodgame

What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place. — Barbara Kingsolver

I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue. — Anton Chekhov

I think I'm heading into a time in my life where words and labels will lose their meaning. It will only be the intent behind them that will matter. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song. — Jim Croce

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time. — Peter Abrahams

Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved. — LeCrae

My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words. — Julianna Baggott

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words. — Peter Elbow

ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Men have died from time to time, and words have eaten them, but not for love. — William Shakespeare

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'. — Smiley Blanton

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher. — Karen Hesse

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others. — Roger Ebert

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words. — Bono

What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose. — Jules Barnard

There comes a time
when you have to let go
all the words
all the teaching
and trust the infinite — Billy Doyle

The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time. — Kurt Vonnegut

I moaned in frustration, trapped between desire and fear. "God, Roth." "In your life, at this time, those two words could be considered synonymous. — Jasinda Wilder

Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense. — Shannon Hale

My first words, as I was being born [ ... ] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. — Stephen Fry

It was a time when she did not have the words to name things she saw, and so now, when she tried to recall them, the words could never be right. — Scott Cawthon

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you. — Jim Croce

Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit. — Adam Levine

It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could. — Anna Todd

Time fell short of seconds and words fell short of breath as they all realized that Abraham Lincoln, friend, father, and leader was no more. — John C. Berry

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others. — Charles Dickens

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. — Ryan Lilly

I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely. — Slavenka Drakulic

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt

We enter the world of the story, delighted to go through that reliable and recognizable portal of promise, the magical words "Once upon a time. — Paula Munier

That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time. — Tim Seeley

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. — Lynn Coady

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

Spring time is nature at its best. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids. — Robert H. Frank

This is no time to make new enemies. — Voltaire

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart. — Sue Monk Kidd

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

What a wonderful life; to be blessed with many sacred brothers and sisters? — Lailah Gifty Akita

As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other. — Daisy Whitney

Don't run against time go hand in hand — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Your time, energy and words.

Three things you can never get back once they've been exchanged. Choose wisely. — Keysha Jade

I just there for two days and that thought of what last words I could say to the firing squad. As good a pastime as any. — Ayn Rand

And perhaps,frozen somewhere with time,
Our words will never cease to rhyme — Stuti Dhyani

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed. — Viv Albertine

You were drunk. I wanted to hear the words when you were of sound mind. Women get drunk all the time and confess their undying love to me. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

She was night-time and words were the dream. — Jeanette Winterson

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all. — Vikrmn

His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive. — Kerry Kletter

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

May you find your path and travel on it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When value of your words gets lower its time to stay quite and improve your self — Maulik Shah