Skip to content

Paradox Quotes

the best quotes
Main navigation
  • Home
  • Quotes by Thinkers
    • Philosophers
    • Poets
    • Historians
    • Sociologists
  • Quotes by Doers
    • Leaders
    • Revolutionaries
    • Activists
    • Educators
  • Quotes by Birthday

Words

Simon Schama Quote: “Somehow, the words don’t have any…”

Somehow, the words don’t have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That’s how I start. Once I’m off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop – not that what I do is poetry.

December 9, 2019 1945, British, February 13, Quotes by Historians, Simon Schama

Arthur Bryant Quote: “Say what you have to say…”

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

December 7, 2019 1899, Arthur Bryant, British, February 18, Quotes by Historians

Wislawa Szymborska Quote: “Take it not amiss, O speech…”

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

December 4, 2019 1923, July 2, Polish, Quotes by Poets, Wislawa Szymborska

Samuel Butler Quote: “Oaths are but words, and words…”

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

November 23, 2019 1835, British, December 4, Quotes by Poets, Samuel Butler

Jean-Paul Sartre Quote: “Words are loaded pistols….”

Words are loaded pistols.

November 19, 2019 1905, French, Jean-Paul Sartre, June 21, Quotes by Philosophers

John Dryden Quote: “If you be pungent, be brief…”

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

November 18, 2019 1631, August 19, English, John Dryden, Quotes by Poets

Florence Nightingale Quote: “I think one’s feelings waste themselves…”

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

November 16, 2019 1820, English, Florence Nightingale, May 12, Quotes by Activists

Sidney Lanier Quote: “I have frequently noticed in myself…”

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.

November 14, 2019 1842, American, March 3, Quotes by Poets, Sidney Lanier

Sophocles Quote: “It was my care to make…”

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

November 5, 2019 496 BC, Greek, Quotes by Poets, Sophocles

Ralph Abernathy Quote: “You may be assured that we…”

You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

November 4, 2019 1926, American, March 11, Quotes by Activists, Ralph Abernathy

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 3 … 10 Next
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Hive Lite by PixelGrade.
Footer navigation
  • Home
  • Quotes by Thinkers
    • Philosophers
    • Poets
    • Historians
    • Sociologists
  • Quotes by Doers
    • Leaders
    • Revolutionaries
    • Activists
    • Educators
  • Quotes by Birthday