#words

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #immutable #law #only #performance

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#any #cute #divine #divine love #drawn

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. ↗

— Ann Landers

#comforting #expect #inevitable #life #most

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#come #delicate #drowned #easily #everyday

Value your words. Each one may be the last. ↗

— Stanislaw Lec

#last #may #value #words #your

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#express #fight #might #people #say

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #clings #condition #contract #long

I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#i #make #puzzles #simple #simple words

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#anything #been #bush #convinced #decisions

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#dictate #duty #hallowed #honor #ought