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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.


Jack Kerouac

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, LAST WORDS One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all tha...
JACK KEROUAC Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.
TAMAS LAKOMETZ Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake The five most important words: You did a good...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your a...
LOUISE PENNY Are you a man of your word or just a man of many words?
SEAN CROSBY You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Best man describes himself by remarkable actions, not by persuasive words.
BRADLEY B. DALINA Your Actions are harder than Your Words,So you need more actions and less words in order to excel in...
PAUL E. EHIMEN words are important. No words at all are the hardest to hear
JANE YATES I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.
BOB LIVINGSTON If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.
DASHANNE STOKES Use your eyes to hear the words I love you
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak prett...
MARLO THOMAS The word of a man is a man, so make your words worthwhile.
VIKRANT PARSAI No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world m...
TERRY PRATCHETT All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Let your words be petty and actions plenty!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Most powerful... ONE word: CONGRATULATIONS. TWO words: THANK YOU. THREE words: I LOVE YOU.
LORRIN L. LEE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman:- you must never speak what you think; your-words must contradict your thoughts, but...
WILLIAM CONGREVE The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS Be truthful in your words and kind on your actions
N. S. COLE Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thought...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the word...
FRANK HERBERT Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We...
H. JAY DINSAH I dont care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
JOSH BILLINGS I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Words are important; actions are vital, but don’t just show your thoughts through your words or ac...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I could see the crosses burning and I could hear all the words they would use, the N-word and the ha...
CATHERINE JOHNSON Cancer affects all of us, whether directly or indirectly. When you hear the words.
CYNTHIA GUARIGLIA Let your life be a living scripture and your actions the words of your evangelism
FRANKLIN EZEH Children act on the words they hear.
May your words be gracious to the hearing of children.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I will continue to lead by example. Actions, of course, speak louder than words.
GERARD ARPEY If you say your a man of your word and in the end you have no words what does that make you
STARGAZER The difference is,
Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions an...
CHING NING CHU It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions an...
CHIN-NING CHU It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions an...
RENE CHAR Say it."
"Say what?"
"Tell me what you told me earlier."
"I love you."
"That's a...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Death is the word that kills all the words.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Say you are well, or all is well with you,And God shall hear your words and make them true.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ou...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
GEORGE ELIOT Your words prove nothing, but your actions prove everything.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Be kind with your thoughts, caring with your words, and gentle in your actions.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO i believe in actions rather than words
SADIQ AMIN 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying ...
BO BURNHAM All the creatures are pleased by loving words; and therefore we should address words that are pleasi...
CHANAKYA With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful de...
F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions wh...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Be healing with your words, be tender with your words, be gentle with your words and watch your word...
HEATHER WOLF Assassinate me with your threatening words you may, intimidate me you cannot. A ballless man can onl...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
KAREN HANDEL Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; t...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.
TOBA BETA I thought I owed it to him. You gotta say, 'Hey, let me hear your last words.
JOE HANLEY It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've...
LEV GROSSMAN With your words & your actions you have the capability to uplift or tear down
N. S. COLE What do you do when your words aren't enough? What do you do when your actions have no effect? What ...
HUBERT MARTIN O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; t...
UNKNOWN Reading is a tree that grows from year to year. During the fall every leave that falls is a new word...
BRYAN P LOEFFLER Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
DASHANNE STOKES let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of yo...
FRANK E. PERETTI All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become yo...
MAHATMA GANDHI But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the...
LOTTE LEHMANN But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the ...
LOTTE LEHMANN Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON When your words and actions are contradictory your sincerity is untrustworthy.
PETER SAYSOMPHANE I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.
COLLEEN HOOVER Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN Wise with Your Words.

Speak words that support your highest good. Are your thoughts buil...
SUSAN C. YOUNG Your words will be tested. Your words will be verified.
MITTA XININDLU Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
CONFUCIUS I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, &...
BO SANCHEZ Your future harvest is a result of the seeds that you have sown through your actions and your words.
JOHN DI LEMME Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
JOHN BUNYAN Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your ac...
UNKNOWN Every word serves a purpose. It conveys an idea. And the idea behind words like feces, stool, or poo...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
OSCAR WILDE Actions always overshadow words
BRENT M. JONES No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
ROGER ZELAZNY I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can only be hurt by the words of others if you aloe those words to hurt you.
GARY COE Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so neve...
KEMI SOGUNLE People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
JOHN C. MAXWELL

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JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
JACK KEROUAC It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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