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Meanings Of Words Quotes

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them Picture Quote #1

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another Picture Quote #1

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words Picture Quote #1

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head Picture Quote #1

The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man Picture Quote #1

Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words Picture Quote #1

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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like Picture Quote #1

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text Picture Quote #1

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels Picture Quote #1

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that Picture Quote #1

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two Picture Quote #1

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words Picture Quote #1

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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them Picture Quote #1

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist Picture Quote #1

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity Picture Quote #1

The language of friendship is not words but meanings Picture Quote #1

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words Picture Quote #1

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words Picture Quote #1

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Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform Picture Quote #1

Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning Picture Quote #1

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects Picture Quote #1

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes Picture Quote #1

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Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them (Meanings Of Words Quotes) The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another. (Meanings Of Words Quotes) When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words. (Meanings Of Words Quotes) The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head (Meanings Of Words Quotes) The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like (Meanings Of Words Quotes) For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two (Meanings Of Words Quotes) It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them (Meanings Of Words Quotes) If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity (Meanings Of Words Quotes) The language of friendship is not words but meanings (Meanings Of Words Quotes) For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words (Meanings Of Words Quotes) The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects (Meanings Of Words Quotes) Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes (Meanings Of Words Quotes)