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Word Quotes (page 150)

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. Mark Twain
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. Mahatma Gandhi
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head. Giacomo Casanova
Augusto Roa Bastos quote: "Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible."
Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. Augusto Roa Bastos
The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly... Aldous Huxley
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me. C. S. Lewis
Nicholas Sparks quote: "That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to..."
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better. Nicholas Sparks
Toni Morrison quote: "It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with..."
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being. Toni Morrison
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words. Ken Kesey
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and..."
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Barbara Kingsolver
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. Alexander Dumas
Don DeLillo quote: "The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not..."
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. Don DeLillo

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