#words

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#christ #compared #ever #jesus #jesus christ

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ↗

— Ruth Hubbard

#cannot #categorize #evolve #our #place

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. ↗

— Eric Idle

#break #corner #cry #go #hours

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#democracy #democratization #east #how #in other words

It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#because #caused #dyslexic #hard #kid

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ↗

— James Joyce

#fear #i #make #those #unhappy

I love family reunions. Maybe next year we could pass out samurai swords. ↗

— Doug Solter

#funny #humor #samurai #swords #truth-of-life

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#find #i #powerful #them #very

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#being #correcting #day #earliest #first

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

#almost #archaic #because #harmless #incendiary