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Quotes about words
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please. (Abbey Lynn)
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. (Abbey Lynn)
Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually. (Abbey Lynn)
Words are loaded pistols. (Abbey Lynn)
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A word too much always defeats its purpose. (Abbey Lynn)
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. (Abbey Lynn)
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine. (Abbey Lynn)
It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Abbey Lynn)
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. (Abbey Lynn)
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party. (Abbey Lynn)
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. (Abbey Lynn)
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. (Abbey Lynn)
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. (Abbey Lynn)
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. (Abbey Lynn)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. (Abbey Lynn)
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. (Abbey Lynn)
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. (Abbey Lynn)
When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock (Abbey Lynn)
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word. (Abbey Lynn)
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words. (Abbey Lynn)
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents? (Abbey Lynn)
Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion. (Abbey Lynn)
You can stroke people with words. (Abbey Lynn)
Good words are worth a thousand pictures. (Abbey Lynn)
One thing you can give and still keep is your word. (Abbey Lynn)
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