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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that co... by Abigail Adams

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams
language-words diversity communication

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Aldous Huxley
language-words levels able

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Dante Alighieri
language-words pain dark

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you’ve created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective.

Darynda Jones
language-words heart dirty
In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depe... by E. J. Dionne

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

E. J. Dionne
language-words political needs
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out... by Elie Wiesel

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

Elie Wiesel
language-words language writing
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. by George Eliot

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot
language-words simple writing

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Giambattista Vico
language-words communication order

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis
language-words acting change

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Noam Chomsky
language-words generations law
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spok... by Orson Scott Card

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card
language-words parenting silence
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth n... by Roger Ascham

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Roger Ascham
language-words wings men
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language. by Roger Ascham

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Roger Ascham
language-words excellence men
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters... by Samuel Johnson

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson
plain-language language-words inspirational

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Toni Cade Bambara
atmosphere language-words taken
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in... by W. H. Auden

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

W. H. Auden
language-words passion love

I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.

William Faulkner
language-words writing joy

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn
plain-language language-words writing
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. by William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare
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