Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
it can achieve.
- Napoleon Hill
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth on this continent,
a new nation, conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- Abraham Lincoln
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts
by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't join the book burners.
Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts
by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is impossible for a man to conceal himself.
In every act, word or gesture,
he stands revealed as he is,
and not as he would have himself appear to be.
From the Universe, nothing is or can be hidden.
- Ernest Holmes
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
An intellectual is a man
who takes more words than necessary
to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu
In three words, I can sum up everything
I've learned about life - it goes on.
- Robert Frost
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words
but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
We have nearly complete misunderstanding between
people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon,
and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.
It's when you are trying to convince another person to think
the same way that you do that there is
friction and trouble between people.
But when you feel that the other person is
dumber than dirt, too dumb for words -
why waste your breath - you get along pretty well.
There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as
when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.
- Garrison Keillor
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
In human intercourse the tragedy begins,
not when there is misunderstanding about words,
but when silence is not understood.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
"Pride" is one of those really crazy words,
and such a double-edged sword -
Self-Worth on one edge, and Ego on the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All philosophy lies in two words,
sustain and abstain.
- Epictetus
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
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
It is in our lives and not our words
that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
I advocate speaking words of love
with all the sincerity that can be mustered,
as frequently as possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized,
nor are there even words.
It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
- Peace Pilgrim
All these primary impulses,
not easily described in words,
are the springs of man's actions.
- Albert Einstein
Your example is far more influential and inspiring
than any words of instruction, or threats,
or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler
Truthful words are not beautiful;
beautiful words are not truthful.
Good words are not persuasive;
persuasive words are not good.
- Lao Tzu
We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin.
And therefore, as a free man, I take pride
in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
- John F. Kennedy
Words are also actions,
and actions are a kind of words.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will have to repent in this generation,
not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people,
but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
In the uttermost meaning of the words,
thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
Deep calls unto deep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
- Simon and Garfunkel
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The ultimate test of a man's conscience
may be his willingness to sacrifice something today
for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
- Gaylord Nelson
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
'Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotations are slippery things, really.
A brief sentence or phrase, often repeated -
always completely out of its original context -
and sometimes not an accurate representation
of the author's original words, let alone his intentions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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