#word

Word - that invisible dagger. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#invisible #word

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#desire #ink #light-speed #literature #literature-quotes

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#i #leaning #like #nude #sleep

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#compromise #magic #me #philosophical #tolerance

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#reject #search #word

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go. ↗

— Frank Leslie

#as far as #care #childhood #far #freedom

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ↗

— Robert Burton

#deeper #strikes #sword #than #word

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#building #creative #creative force #energy #force