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299 quotesWe have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Words
Abigail Adams
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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Kindness
Aeschylus
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When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Action
African Proverb
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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Friends and Friendship
Louisa May Alcott
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Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.
Candor
Thomas B. Aldrich
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Words of love, are works of love.
Words
William R. Alger
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The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.
Speakers and Speaking
Arabian Proverb
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When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.
Speech
Arabian Proverb
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By words the mind is winged.
Words
Aristophanes
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The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
Spirit and Spirituality
Sholem Asch
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A word after a word after a word is power.
Power
Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Death and Dying
W. H. Auden
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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Words
Burt Bacharach
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Computers
Dave Barry
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I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
Business
Kim Basinger
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Words are all we have.
Words
Samuel Beckett
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Words
Henry Ward Beecher
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Writers and Writing
Robert Benchley
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Kisses and Kissing
Ingrid Bergman
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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
Techniques
Leonard Bernstein
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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Gifts
Bible
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A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]
Anger
Bible
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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]
Action
Bible
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Compliments
Bible
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun