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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure. — Ada Yonath

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you. — Frederick Lenz

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

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

Even idiots sometimes have a way with words. And some words have sharp tongues. — Cameron Dokey

Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words. — Will Schwalbe

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message. — Henry Drummond

Making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man's voice on the other hand, is something else entirely. — Angelo Tsanatelis

A grateful heart is good medicine. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man is defined by his deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence. — Richard Flanagan

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question. — Ralph Ellison

Tortured for the Republic. — James A. Garfield

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. — C.S. Lewis

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fear must be conquered with faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown. — Anna Kamienska

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? — Sylvia Plath

This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough. — Nicola Yoon

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs. — Albert Hammond Jr.

He wished they could just be naked in his bed and not worry about words. Talking was overrated anyway. — Savannah Stuart

Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky. — Colleen Hoover

Just so we're clear the words "free will" are not actually in the Bible. Predestination, on the other hand ... — R.C. Sproul Jr.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. — Mahatma Gandhi

The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. — Zeno Of Citium

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves. — NoViolet Bulawayo

I don't know what any of my tunes are about, they're just out there. I'm not good with words. I just say the first thing that comes into my head — Liam Gallagher

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. — John Dewey

Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn. — Tzipi Livni

When words run dry,
he does not try,
nor do I.
We are on par.
He just is,
I just am
and we just are — Lang Leav

These words are not just destined to be shared with the mind - but, the Soul. — Eleesha

Don't always seek the approval of others concerning your goals or dreams. Not everyone wants to see you succeed, just because they are not successful. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. — Annie Lobert

Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind. — Jonathan Lethem

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton

Words are the clothing of our thoughts. — Jonathan Swift

229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water. — Maggie Nelson

Just three words long — Rainbow Rowell

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure. — Truth Devour

words can be kind, words can be cruel words are not just words, they can change you a lot for real — Himanshu Arora

You're just ... You're everything
His words are perfect, but the tone in his voice is not right. Wistful. Apologetic. — Jessica Park

Some people are just weak and vulnerable but not dangerous. By using our heart we can more easily choose the right words when communicating with them. — Robin Sacredfire

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for — John F. Kerry

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

I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross

I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path. — Patience Johnson

Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer. — Ahmad Ardalan

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms. — Angus Wilson

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall. — Marina Abramovic

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

I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would bring him down a peg or two. — Julia Mills

Love; something takes place in your heart without visible words. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera — Emma Chase

What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled. — Rachel Gibson

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. — J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

The right words always seemed to come too late. — Haruki Murakami

Every word comes from the heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A king should die standing. — Louis XVIII Of France

In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one. — Tom Watson

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this? — Terry Pratchett

The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle.

Words too soft for me to hear at this distance. But in the end, the words reach me. — Jay Asher

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. — Confucius

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. — Charlie Brooker

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts. — Benebell Wen

If we were poets, we'd starve on words. — Charlie LeDuff

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. — Brian Froud

Have your dream ... What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) — Haruki Murakami

When words fail, the hammer drops,
living can never be its own excuse. — Michael Hogan

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. — Francis Schaeffer

(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