#words

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

— Brandon Lee

#express #fight #might #people #say

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends. ↗

— Edward Levi

#builds #changing #claim #ends

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#speaking #stupid #understands #who #wisdom

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 know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

#company #dictionary #each #end #laid

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#day #end #end of the day #hear #hope

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#ever #explain #going #i #lemon

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#burn #confuse #down #evil #fire

The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

#fewer #prayer #words