#words

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love. ↗

— James Beattie

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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#draws #nature #words

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#cry #into #poets #sleep #steam

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. ↗

— David Lee Roth

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The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.' ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#always #breast cancer #cancer #chance #devastating