I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal or in other words a meddling government a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace both in words and deeds. By contrast the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
Taxes are like abortion and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
I have a message from the Tea Party a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
As I speak to you today government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
In other words a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Papa potatoes poultry prunes and prism are all very good words for the lips.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are as standing in a dictionary how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
Every day we should hear at least one little song read one good poem see one exquisite picture and if possible speak a few sensible words.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
However many holy words you read however many you speak what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation but deeds can be done only for God.
As children as we learn what things are we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults entirely submerged in words and concepts we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.