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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

Words can't say what needs to be said, ... We're just trying to figure out where we can do the most good.

Words can't really describe the feelings that I had, to know that he had woken up. He was here; he was alive again. It was so amazing. If you didn't believe in God, that right there should definitely help your faith.

Words can't express it. I was given a new chance at life. If it wasn't for the drug court program I'd be in prison.

Words can't even explain it. I'm still way up on cloud nine right now.

Words can't describe what we felt with the success we had with her, and now with this tragedy.

Words can't describe what he means not just to the secondary but to this team. He brings confidence, energy, faith. Anything you say about him is an understatement.

Words can't describe how I feel right now. This is one of the greatest feelings in the world.

Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.

Words can not truly express how proud I am of these young women for all that they were able to do this year. The results really speak for themselves, and anyone that competed against these girls this past fall knows that. My only regret is that I will not be able watch these student-athletes continue to grow as players, as students, and as adults, but I know that they will be extremely successful in anything that they do.

Words cannot express how we felt. We were all very excited.There were cheers and tears, hugs and kisses.

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.

Words cannot describe what we felt in terms of the support we received the night after Mike's passing, ... A number of people made a special effort to be there that night and express their deepest sympathy. The outpouring of cards, e-mails, and phone calls received here and in his hometown have been incredible.

Words cannot describe this. It is just incredible. These kids worked hard and deserve this.

Words cannot describe the heartbreak. We will not rest until we catch this murderer.

Words cannot describe it. I couldn't throw. I threw an open draw through the house. I was looking at the screen.

Words cannot describe how we all feel about this.

Words cannot describe how good this feels, ... To be a part of this, it's so special.

Words can never express my sorrow and profound regret.

WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think

Words are the only things that last forever

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Words are not enough. It is time for rich-country governments to stump up or shut up.

Words are no longer enough. It is time for action. This is the first genocide of the 21 st century. The world has said, 'Never again.' Those words must mean something.

Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promise land.

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Therefore we will talk to you in a language that you understand. Our words are dead until we give them life with our blood.

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

We also will do some music that is representative of the country that we are visiting. We brought in a native of Croatia who moved here a few years ago and speaks the language. So we were able to teach the boys some words and pronunciation and she was nice enough to bring us folk songs and the national anthem of Croatia. We learned those things and are hoping to do them while we are on tour. It is nice to show people you are making an attempt to learn a little bit about their language and culture.

We are honored to have such a varied and celebrated group of artists joining Music Days and using the power of music to promote cross-cultural understanding, ... Danny was a talented musician who always connected people through words and music; he truly lived the Music Days theme of 'Harmony for Humanity.'

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

The only way it?s bad for the game is if a guy is falsely accused. That?s bad. To be thought lesser than your talent, lesser than what you deserve to get credit for because of what somebody wrote, that?s the greatest travesty. That?s why you should hold onto people?s words as long as you can, until you absolutely know the truth.

There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, achievement, hard-working, overseas experience, flexible, and task-oriented.

We decide certain words aren't so bad anymore. It's reflected in our everyday language use.

We're able to capture them at that early stage and to provide them with a way to develop language as typically developing kids do. They're actually learning words faster than we would see with typical kids.

We heard through their own words what they wanted to say rather than through the American media, who always portrays them as terrorists. It makes sense to talk to people.

We heard little hints about how Vernon Jordan might be a liar because of what he said about December 11th. And all of a sudden, just five minutes ago, this body heard for the first time, he's not only maybe a liar about the job search, but he's maybe a liar about destroying evidence, ... Words fail me.

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

The problem with the NCAA tournament is it's just one of those things words sometimes don't do justice. You have to experience it.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

When I met with (Adam's) father (Wednesday) evening ... the first words out of his father's mouth were, (Adam) was so proud to be working for you guys,' ... Adam really did radiate that.

We use the ten code system to tell other officers and dispatchers exactly what's going on with the fewest amount of words possible.

We use Ronald Reagan to tell a decent amount of the story in his own words. We wanted to use as much of Ronald Reagan's words to show who Ronald Reagan was, not have people put words in his mouth.

We used words like monumental, gigantic. He was really big off the bench for us.

We used to have our words down there, a lot of trash talking, ... It should be fun to see what he recalls from last year because I do have a different game from last year.

The producer had to stop recording and wait for me to compose myself, ... There are quite a few places in my memoir that I don't read again and don't read out loud at appearances. It's interesting. You can write it down and even work with it in writing, but speaking your words out into the world has a different kind of power.

The pope, in his heart and with his words of encouragement, embraces all who suffer injustice.

This raises huge questions about the authorities of States and Tribes to access the best scientific data and manage a regional resource. Congress was clear 26 years ago when it passed the Northwest Power Act laying out the roles and responsibilities of tribes and federal and state fishery agencies. If this stands, it says that any member of Congress, behind closed doors, can undo a decades-long effort with words hidden in a legislative report.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

There are words in Spanish that mean different things in different countries. More than the accent, you have to try to use neutral words so no one is going to say 'huh' when they're watching.

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing

When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together.

The primary goal of the choir is to rekindle interest in the language, ... The kids are interested in the Cherokee language and when we go on trips, we use a glossary of words that are in the songs and practice using them while we travel.

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

When we said go, they went. They took our words seriously.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

There are people who should be caught who aren't caught and words that should be said that aren't said.

We're confined to a framework of music, and I feel that the words can be poetic, but I wouldn't say poetry in the strictest sense.

We're complaining he used words which are false and intentionally reflect negatively on the municipality,

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Life without goodness, good thoughts, good actions and good words is like the sky in the night without the moon or stars. It is like a wheel without a hub or spokes! No one can push a boulder away while standing on it; you cannot be free from anxiety while all the entrances through which it sneaks in are open.

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Life happens at the level of events, not words

Let me answer that with the words from the hit Steely Dan song 'Do it Again,' ... You go back, Jack, do it again. Wheel turnin' 'round and 'round. You go back, Jack, do it again.

Lots of pictures. You don't need that many words. Every athlete has a cool story, but pictures are what it's about. It's about looking cool.

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short.

Many of the words and descriptions in his e-mail are certainly antithetical to an institutional commitment to an inclusive approach to learning. I personally consider them to be highly inappropriate.

Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

So I try to stick with the structure, make the sentences work, and not to follow one sentence of 114 words with another of the same length.

So I think for me, it's nice, like a big brother, I can tell them what should pay attention, what shouldn't pay attention, what words you should take, what things you shouldn't take.

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and that's what a master does.

She was beautiful and witty and charmed everyone anew each time she spoke with us. Just imagine this lot of oft besotted fun hogs sitting at dinner with coat and tie listening intently to the words of this diminutive diplomat of decency and decorum.

She's tough beyond words. She has a brilliant stick. It's one of the greatest sticks you'll ever see. But she also has great height and is strong physically. She's as graceful on her feet as any player you'll see.

On a personal sense, I've got to use words. There aren't words in these works - there is vocabulary pursued here and there. But, in a personal sense, I'm referring to that very unsteady conversation the artist has with an audience.

O Nanak, the shaven-headed ones are devils. They are not pleased to hear these words. When it rains, there is happiness. Water is the key to all life. When it rains, the corn grows, and the sugar cane, and the cotton, which provides clothing for all.

Some 85 percent of jobs created in the past 25 years have been in the public sector -- in other words financed by taxes.

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Six months of basketball for this opportunity. You can't even put words on how it feels.

Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and actions.

She is not your enemy. You already know my daughter is honest, sincere, and of good heart. Her respect for the Iraqi people is evident in her words that she has been reporting. Jill started to tell your story, so, please, let her finish it.

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical characters - these figures have real weight. They might be just made out of words and paper, but their effect in the world can be massive, if they've got the right kind of mass, the right kind of gravity and momentum.

She just asked me what was the problem, how I felt. She had very nice words for me.