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Tears are words the heart can't express.

Unknown

It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Marian Wright Edelman

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words

Khalil Gibran

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Robert MacNeil

A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

Huston Smith

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

Ruth St. Denis

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do

Thomas Jefferson

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Jane Austen

And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead

Philip Robison

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

Lee Iacocca

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

Barbara Deming

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass

Sir John Vanbrugh

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

Danilo Dolci

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

Before words must always be deeds. By deeds alone we have got our influence. Deeds alone give a political form to our activities.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent

William Shakespeare

Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.

V. N. Volosinov

What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan

Hakuin

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr

It is better in prayer to have a heart without words then words without a heart

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.

KABIR

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people

Judy Garland

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?

Sarah Jessica Parker

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