#words

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bring #distilled #feelings #i #i think

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#armaments #available #axes #battle #condemned

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#commend #him #man #men #only

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#end #faith #i #last #pursue

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#assassins #idealism #without #words

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#no reason #paint #reason #say #words

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. ↗

— James Houston

#tools #words #writer #you

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. ↗

— Eric Idle

#day #life #me #monty #monty python

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#book #closely #cube #dark #even

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#character #characters #does #i #i write