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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
E. Y. Harburg
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Richard M. Nixon
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G. White
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
Montserrat Caballe
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Ovid
If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?
Franny Billingsley
I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.
Toba Beta
There has to be new words to explain new worlds.
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Jandy Nelson
...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...
Jon Fosse
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
John Geddes
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
Richard J. Daley
If words are the truth, what is living for?
Marty Rubin
Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.
National Geographic Magazine
We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.
Beth Kephart
...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
