Good Words Quotes

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  Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Integrity, Writing

  1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

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• Good words are worth much, and cost little.

  George Herbert

  Encouragement, Positivity, Cheerful

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.297, [s.n.]

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotion, Silent, Persons

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• Good words are better than bad strokes.

  William Shakespeare

  Strokes

  1599 Brutus to Octavius. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.29.

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• Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

  George Herbert

  Water, Buckets, Quench

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.327

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• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Darkness, Three, Deeds

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• Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

  Zoroaster

  Three, Deeds, Good Thoughts

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• Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

  Laozi

  Men, Honor, Deeds

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• If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

  William Zinsser

  Needs, Painful, Ifs

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• Comeback is a good word, man.

  Mickey Rourke

  Men, Comeback

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• And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

  Bradley Nowell

  Life, Night, Unspoken

  "Song: "Don't Push"". "40 Oz. to Freedom", June 1, 1992.

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• Always" is a good word to believe in.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Believe

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.231, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Hate, Believe

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• What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Rocks, Land, Rivers

  Patricia A. McKillip (2006). “Solstice Wood”, p.138, Penguin

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• I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold

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• I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to give a straight answer." "Perhaps so," said the Queen with an amused smile. "'Mayhap' is a good word too," Alec suggested. "Also 'perchance,'" Izzy said. "I see nothing wrong with 'maybe'," said Simon. "A little modern, but the gist of the idea comes across.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Ideas, Giving

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• A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

  John Tillotson

  Relationship, People, Silence

  John Tillotson (1794). “The Beauties of Dr. John Tillotson, Carefullet Selected from His Works [and] Containing His Admirable System of Early Education, Thoughts on Religion, Atheism and Infidelity, the Immortality of the Soul, Etc: To which are Prefixed Some of His Arguments for the Truth and Belief of the Christian Religion”, p.195

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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Silly, Mean

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• Good words cool more than cold water.

  John Ray

  Water, Cold, Cold Heart

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.175

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• She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

  John Podhoretz

  Beauty, Weakness, Needs

  "Stopping Hillary". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 9, 2006.

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• I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

  Brad Paisley

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

  Chief Joseph

  Broken Heart, Sick, Broken Promises

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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in my life." You can't do that. You can't decide that a word is forbidden now collectively amongst your group of human beings, that the word is a slanderous evil nasty word about homosexuals. It's not, the word doesn't mean that. And sometimes it's a good word to use in comedy. That's what your friend has to realize when he's at a bar just yelling out the word.

  Joe Rogan

  Mean, Gay, Yelling

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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