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Quotes about words
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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. (Abbey Lynn)
Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said. (Abbey Lynn)
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. (Abbey Lynn)
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. (Abbey Lynn)
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. (Abbey Lynn)
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. (Abbey Lynn)
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less. (Abbey Lynn)
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. (Abbey Lynn)
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside. (Abbey Lynn)
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. (Abbey Lynn)
Eating words has never given me indigestion. (Abbey Lynn)
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. (Abbey Lynn)
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. (Abbey Lynn)
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. (Abbey Lynn)
A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. (Abbey Lynn)
I have never been hurt by what I have not said. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. (Abbey Lynn)
A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day. (Abbey Lynn)
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. (Abbey Lynn)
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. (Abbey Lynn)
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. (Abbey Lynn)
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed. (Abbey Lynn)
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. (Abbey Lynn)
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. (Abbey Lynn)
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