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Quotes about words
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. (Abbey Lynn)
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. (Abbey Lynn)
Every spoken word arouses our self-will. (Abbey Lynn)
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Abbey Lynn)
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one. (Abbey Lynn)
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (Abbey Lynn)
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. (Abbey Lynn)
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. (Abbey Lynn)
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life. (Abbey Lynn)
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are the money of fools. (Abbey Lynn)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. (Abbey Lynn)
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered. (Abbey Lynn)
A word once uttered can never be recalled. (Abbey Lynn)
Strong words are required for weak principles. (Abbey Lynn)
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. (Abbey Lynn)
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. (Abbey Lynn)
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. (Abbey Lynn)
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. (Abbey Lynn)
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. (Abbey Lynn)
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. (Abbey Lynn)
All words are part true and part false. (Abbey Lynn)
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. (Abbey Lynn)
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