Word Quotes

The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Just two words: a masterpiece.