New Words Quotes

• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Vex, Arise

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

  William Shakespeare

  Language Words, Heaven, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 97

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• So all my best is dressing old words new.

  William Shakespeare

  Dressings

  Sonnet 76

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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

  Claudius

  Language And Power, Hamlet And Ophelia, Hamlet Revenge

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• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

  William Shakespeare

  Thought Provoking, Lovers Meeting, Power Of Words

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

  Isak Dinesen

  Beach, Encouragement, Ocean

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• I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

  William Safire

  Color, Way, Welcome

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• And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word.

  Stephen Amell

  Talking, Creating, People

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• At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

  Robert Burchfield

  Order, Language, Periods

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• I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

  Roald Dahl

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The BFG”, p.99, Penguin

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Finding The One

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.366

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Air, Discussion

  "Culture and Value". Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, p. 2e, 1980.

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• New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

  Patience Strong

  Fading Away, Fading, Born

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.172, Graphic Arts Books

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• Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.

  Denise Levertov

  Attitude, Moving, Poetry

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• In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

  Gunter Grass

  Growth, Needs, Chance

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• I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Philosophy, Love Is, Unapologetic

  "Axelrod and Biden Attack Rush". "Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 2, 2009.

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• Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

  Alain Badiou

  Europe, Truth Is, Elsewhere

  Alain Badiou, Oliver Feltham (2007). “Being and Event”, p.3, A&C Black

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• I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

  Natalia Makarova

  Insatiable

  "Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

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• Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to now is that, in his refined non-provocative way, he has introduced into public speech topics which had hitherto been de facto unsayable: the continuing importance of race in politics, the positive role of atheists in public life, the necessity to talk with "enemies" like Iran or Hamas, and so on. This is just what US politics needs today more than anything, if it is to break out of its gridlock: new words which will change the way we think and act.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Atheist, Thinking, Race

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• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  R. O. Blechman

  Art, Loss, Hands

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• The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.

  John McPhee

  Church, Enthusiasm, Affection

  John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.22, Macmillan

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