#words

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dark #great #great silence #great truth #sea

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. ↗

— Major Taylor

#confront #deep #deep feeling #every #express

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#history #interpretation #intervening #look #mean

To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

#express #feelings #himself #impossible #know

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words. ↗

— Xun Zi

#breadth #danger #earth #every #every step

My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist. ↗

— Nicholas Drapela

#bomb #changes #climate #colleague #control

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#big #infinite #infinitely #left #mean

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ↗

— Jane Elliott

#affect #anything #day #difference #every

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing. ↗

— Donald McKay

#begin #challenging #dialectical #down #fast

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business. ↗

— Ron Moody

#bits #business #canvas #colour #fill