A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tags: heart child hurt word wound



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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Evelyn Waugh

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Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford: We're safe.
Arthur: Oh good.
Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

Douglas Adams

Tags: humor word wordplay safe semantics safety-in-numbers



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Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.

Socrates

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Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.

Tabitha Robin

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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

William H. Gass

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The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

Wendell Berry

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Harper to your word be true
Holder, crafter you also hew
To honesty, integrity, and respect
All others without regard to intellect

Anne McCaffrey

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The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of
the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the
language of word.

Kedar Joshi

Tags: man people language weapons word barbarism sword



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The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

David Levithan

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