#words

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#each #find #other #things #want

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #frame #important #much #precise

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#commitment #contrast #course #deeds #diplomatic

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words. ↗

— Rita Ora

#i #industry #into #leave #lips

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. ↗

— Bill Owens

#leadership #results #ultimate #words

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#beautiful #born #boy #change #conditional love

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#bad #country #country music #like #momma

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#different #different meaning #differently #effects #meaning

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life