Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's...
We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more...
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny,...
Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.
If a conceptual distinction is to be made the machinery for making it ought to show itself in language. If a distinction cannot be made in language it cannot be made conceptually.
Since the concepts people live by are derived only from perceptions and from language and since the perceptions are received and interpreted only in light of earlier concepts man comes pretty close t...
Words live longer than mortals.
Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.
Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.
It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.
The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe.
I thought I would be understood without words.