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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Mark Twain
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Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, βI like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.β That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
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Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)
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It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise... and actions are the ONLY things that speak.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5))
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If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?
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Tiffany Madison (Black and White)
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If actions speak louder than words
Iβm the most deafening noise youβve heard
Iβll be that ringing in your ears
That will stick around for years
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Touche Amore
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Fran Lebowitz (Metropolitan Life/Social Studies)
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If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.
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DaShanne Stokes
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Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Born of Fury (The League: Nemesis Rising, #6))
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the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
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Mitch Albom (The First Phone Call from Heaven)
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Itβs said that actions speak louder than words,β he went on, βbut we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard.
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Sylvia Day (One with You (Crossfire, #5))
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Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
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William S. Burroughs
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Actions speak louder than words
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Danielle L. Jensen (Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy, #1))
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sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.
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Elizabeth Eulberg (Better Off Friends)
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so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?
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Janet Kagan (Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21))
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Life is too short to be around someone that says they love you but doesn't show it.
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Elizabeth Bourgeret
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Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.
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Israelmore Ayivor
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The 'difference' = What you say you'll do - what you actually do
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George Akomas Jr
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Walk the walk...talk ain't necessary
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George Akomas Jr
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Words. I have realized that words don't mean much. Actions do speak louder than words. One can lie and utter any damn lines to soften a girl up...but actions...actions can move mountains.
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Pamela Ann (Scornfully Yours (Torn, #1))
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Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.
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Heinz Guderian (Achtung-Panzer!: The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential)
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actions speak louder than
words
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Becca Fitzpatrick
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Es gibt nichts Gutes, auΓer man tut es. (Actions speak louder than words.)
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Erich KΓ€stner
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Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.
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Megan Jacobson (The Build-up Season)
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Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness.
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune #3))
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An idea gains value when you take action to bring it to life.
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Pooja Agnihotri (17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure)
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
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Jacob Bronowski
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When someone has gifted you with one act of love after another, itβs only fair to ignore their bad moods and concentrate exclusively in the many things theyβve done for you. Acts and feelings should always prevail over moods and words.
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Mya Robarts (The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story)
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I never listen to what a person says. I look at what a person does because what they do tells me who they really are.
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Patty Houser
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Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.
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Jewel (Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story)
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In leadership, life and all things itβs far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talkβ β Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Music speaks louder than words.
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Arima Kousei
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Bolt actions speak louder than words.
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Craig Roberts (Crosshairs on the Kill Zone: American Combat Snipers, Vietnam through Operation Iraqi Freedom)
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intentions are always speaking ten times louder than your actual words. What are they saying?
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Mark Manson (Models: Attract Women Through Honesty)
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You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong.
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Suzy Kassem (Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
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It is certainly true that βactions speak louder than words,β but words become as monuments to thoughts.
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Anton Szandor LaVey (The Satanic Bible)
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Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything.
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Aleksandra Layland (Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace. (The Windflower Saga Book 2))
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The more deeper you think, the more silent you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point.
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Grace is given not to them who speak [their faith] but to those who live their faith.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
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Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesnβt mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when one canβt lie to oneself. You have to learn to listen to what she is not saying. Listen to her silence. And listen to yours, too.
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Cristiane Serruya (Trust: Betrayed (Trust Trilogy, #2))
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Because sometimes silence speaks much louder than words possibly could.
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Elizabeth Eulberg (Better Off Friends)
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Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.
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Anthony Liccione
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When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?
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Criss Jami (Killosophy)
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Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.
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Suzanne Hayes (I'll Be Seeing You (I'll Be Seeing You, #1))
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Actions can speak louder than words but words can sometimes cut deeper than a sword if they come from the right people in our lives.
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Christina Estabrook
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Actions speak louder than words, so you want to find out what his actions say about his feelings towards you. If he is easily willing to come to your aide on a consistent basis, this is proof he genuinely cares for you.
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Kara King (The Power of the P*ssy - How to Get What You Want From Men: Love, Respect, Commitment and More!: Dating and Relationship Advice for Women (Dating and Relationship ... Respect, Commitment, and More! Book 1))
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Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
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DaShanne Stokes
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Action speaks louder than words.
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Heinz Guderian
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Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound loveβshow me.
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Richelle E. Goodrich (Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year)
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Talk without the support of action means nothing.
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DaShanne Stokes
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Sometimes, the things people don't say are louder than the words that come out of their mouths.
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Robin Benway (Emmy & Oliver)
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...people can say all kinds of things without ever opening their mouths...
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Noah Hawley (Before the Fall)
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I pay ZERO attention to what you say. But your actions have my undivided attention.
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Sotero M Lopez II
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I can influence others, but I'm not responsible for others.
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Brittany Burgunder
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These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
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Frank Herbert (Children of Dune (Dune #3))
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I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you know?'
I do know. I do know, I want to tell him, but I let him talk. And he does, with a gut-wrenching honesty that tears at my heart.
'I want to be held. Is that so wrong? I want to be held, and stroked. I want to know that someone loves me. I want to feel it on my skin.' He looks at the ceiling and exhales, then meets my eyes again. 'But nobody touches me anymore. Not even when I have a fever. Mom just hands me a thermometer now.' He drops his eyes and his ears redden. 'Even when you kiss me, you don't touch me. It's like I'm a leper or something. I can hardly keep my hands off of you, but it's not the same for you, is it?
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J.H. Trumble (Where You Are)
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Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results. Make sure you can live with the results of your actions.
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Carlos Wallace (Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings)
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been with each other, and neither of us had said a damn thing. I guess actions really did speak louder than words.
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Emma Hart (Four Day Fling)
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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. We are often taught we have no control over our "feelings." Yet most of us accept that we choose our actions, that intention and will inform what we do. We also accept that our actions have consequences. To think of actions shaping feelings is one way we rid ourselves of conventionally accepted assumptions such as that parents love their children, or that one simply "falls" in love without exercising will or choice, that there are such things as "crimes of passion," i.e. he killed her because he loved her so much. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades its meaning.
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bell hooks
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time is gold.time is valuable.action speaks louder than words
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Nicole Christie
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Believing isnot enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important. Can you do these things?
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Camron Wright (The Rent Collector)
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You can either choose to wait around and hope life gives you what you wantβor you can choose to jump up and put in the work to make your dream come true.
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Oscar Auliq-Ice
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They donβt see what theyβre doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.
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Amy Neftzger (The Orchard of Hope (The Orphanage of Miracles, #2))
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Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes
And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses.
Flood waters await us in our avenues.
Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalanche
Over unprotected villages.
The sky slips low and grey and threatening.
We question ourselves.
What have we done to so affront nature?
We worry God.
Are you there? Are you there really?
Does the covenant you made with us still hold?
Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters,
Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope
And singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air.
The world is encouraged to come away from rancor,
Come the way of friendship.
It is the Glad Season.
Thunder ebbs to silence and lightning sleeps quietly in the corner.
Flood waters recede into memory.
Snow becomes a yielding cushion to aid us
As we make our way to higher ground.
Hope is born again in the faces of children
It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their sunsets.
Hope spreads around the earth. Brightening all things,
Even hate which crouches breeding in dark corridors.
In our joy, we think we hear a whisper.
At first it is too soft. Then only half heard.
We listen carefully as it gathers strength.
We hear a sweetness.
The word is Peace.
It is loud now. It is louder.
Louder than the explosion of bombs.
We tremble at the sound. We are thrilled by its presence.
It is what we have hungered for.
Not just the absence of war. But, true Peace.
A harmony of spirit, a comfort of courtesies.
Security for our beloveds and their beloveds.
We clap hands and welcome the Peace of Christmas.
We beckon this good season to wait a while with us.
We, Baptist and Buddhist, Methodist and Muslim, say come.
Peace.
Come and fill us and our world with your majesty.
We, the Jew and the Jainist, the Catholic and the Confucian,
Implore you, to stay a while with us.
So we may learn by your shimmering light
How to look beyond complexion and see community.
It is Christmas time, a halting of hate time.
On this platform of peace, we can create a language
To translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
At this Holy Instant, we celebrate the Birth of Jesus Christ
Into the great religions of the world.
We jubilate the precious advent of trust.
We shout with glorious tongues at the coming of hope.
All the earth's tribes loosen their voices
To celebrate the promise of Peace.
We, Angels and Mortal's, Believers and Non-Believers,
Look heavenward and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud.
Peace. We look at each other, then into ourselves
And we say without shyness or apology or hesitation.
Peace, My Brother.
Peace, My Sister.
Peace, My Soul.
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Maya Angelou (Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem)
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Comfort blindfolds; difficulty brings realization.
Pain reveals; disappointments plant trigger of actions.
Fear controls; ignorance deceives.
Anger torments; silence keeps.
Misunderstanding divides; love joins.
Laughter starts; deception suspects.
Frowning cautions; sorrow remembers.
Purposefulness moves; idleness wastes.
When you live in comfort, ponder.
When you live in pain, take lessons.
When life goes up, plant your feet and appreciate the height.
When life goes down, envision the height and dare to get there with tenacity.
Life is how you take and manage things. Be a manager of things or things shall be your manager
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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I won't tell if you don't." I winked.
Granny laughed.
In the South, a wink speaks louder than words.
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Tonya Kappes (A Ghostly Demise (Ghostly Southern Mysteries #3))
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People can play dumb all they want, but they always give themselves away in actions. In the small moments, like that.
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Stephanie Perkins (Isla and the Happily Ever After (Anna and the French Kiss, #3))
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But it is not always the people who say most who do most.
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Agatha Christie (Death Comes as the End)
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The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.
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Germany Kent
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I do not need your guilt, nor do I care for it. This is not about you. If you feel guilty, then use that to change things for the better. Otherwise, your feelings mean nothing.
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Shane Arbuthnott (Dominion (The Molly Stout Adventures, #1))
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I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;
Nor let no comforter delight mine ear
But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine:
... for, brother, men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
Their counsel turns to passion, which before
Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
Charm ache with air and agony with words.
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:
My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
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William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)
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Thereβs the old saying, βActions speak louder than words.β If thatβs true (and I believe it is), maybe our first action should be to shut up, our second action should be to step up, and our third action should be to never give up doing either of the above.
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Cade is the embodiment of actions speaking louder than words. He wasnβt about to fall all over himself apologizing for not making enough coffee for me. Instead, he just made more and left me a mug, knowing that it would make me feel good. And a Post-it note addressed to Red. Maybe Iβm an idiot but it feels sweet. Coming from Cade, it is sweet.
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Elsie Silver (Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2))
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Wealth does not count; words do not count; actions count!
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Dada J. P. Vaswani
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What they actually did matters more than what they said
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Kenneth Eade (And Justice? (Brent Marks Legal Thrillers #11))
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Actions prove who someone is; words just prove who they want to be. If you want to know your true value in someoneβs life, mute their words and watch their behavior.
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Anthon St. Maarten
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In fact, words do speak louder than pictures. Captions do tend to override the evidence of our eyes; but no caption can permanently restrict or secure a pictureβs meaning.
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Susan Sontag
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He worships my skin, and makes soft noises that speak louder than most of the words heβs ever said. Like this, heβs mine. Completely. Itβs so clear in the way he watches me. As if heβs looking for every new milestone of pleasure while he convinces all of my nerve endings to dance for him.
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Leisa Rayven (Bad Romeo (Starcrossed, #1))
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Fathers of the fatherless children, your sons and daughters crave your presence and your support. They want you in their lives more than you will ever know. There isnβt such a thing as a part-time father; your children shouldnβt be treated as toys that you can throw in the closet when you are tired or when the going gets rough. Your sons and daughters are human; they should feel loved and nothing less at all times. You say you love your children, but actions speak louder than words; stand up and be a father to your sons and daughters.
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Charlena E. Jackson (Dear fathers of the fatherless children)
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Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches
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Himmilicious
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Prince Harry marrying Meghan Markle says more about him than any historian could ever write.
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Germany Kent
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Values are the definition of our actions in life
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Armin Houman
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Words are important; actions are vital, but donβt just show your thoughts through your words or actions! Let your unique works speak your thought and action!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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True love is not just felt, it is lived and breathed every day.
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Rendi Ansyah (Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements)
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When you are purposeful and take daily action, more opportunities come into your life. Believe and build more.
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Wesam Fawzi
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Your actions will always speak volumes louder than your words ever will! - (G Swiss)
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G Swiss
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Your words speak louder than your actions because you love to bring me down. Your words are like a double-edged sword that cuts deep. The wounds will never healβthey are scars that I will forever remember.
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Charlena E. Jackson (Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside)
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If Mr. Ex is keeping you on the fence, now would be the perfect time to tell him you hope he calls when he figures out what he wants out of life.Β In the mean time you will not be waiting for him.Β Your next move is to let your actions speak louder than any words you could ever communicate and go completely silent.
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Leslie Braswell (Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy: The Art of No Contact: A Woman's Survival Guide to Mastering a Breakup and Taking Back Her Power)
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I always knew a good man should do no bad deeds, but it never occurred to me that a good man must do good deeds. He cannot just sit back and do nothing. He cannot just relax and let things happen around him. He must act or his faith is meaningless, mere words or thoughts.
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Aleksandra Layland (Ansgar: The Struggle of a People. The Triumph of the Heart. (The Windflower Saga Book 1))
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Dear Fathers of the Fatherless Children: Do you know your sons and daughters are AMAZING? They are full of life and they are truly a blessing. Your sons and daughters need you in their lives. How is it possible that at the beginning of the day when you open your eyes, your children are not on your priority list? Fathers of the fatherless children, your sons and daughters crave your presence and your support. They want you in their lives more than you will ever know. There isnβt such a thing as a part-time father; your children shouldnβt be treated as toys that you can throw in the closet when you are tired or when the going gets rough. Your sons and daughters are human; they should feel loved and nothing less at all times. You say you love your children, but actions speak louder than words; stand up and be a father to your sons and daughters. Fathers of the fatherless children, open your eyes and know your presence is very critical. Be your sonβs hero and let him know he can conquer the world. Be your daughter's first knight in shining armor. Be a part of your sonβs and daughterβs success instead of their pain.
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Charlena E. Jackson (Dear fathers of the fatherless children)
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I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
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Allan Dare Pearce (Paris in April)
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To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit.
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Anton Chekhov (The Complete Short Novels)
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The more deeper you think, the more silence you become. You understand the reasons behind the reason. It may not necessarily mean you are short of words. You however know what ignorance can trigger and how to deal with ignorance and purpose. The timeliness of your word is surely on point
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievementβa breakthrough accomplished by those who pushed themselves beyond what was thought possible while holding a belief in a better life. Get up off your knees, and roll up your sleeves.
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L.M. Browning
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Can we only speak when we are fully living what we are saying? If all our words had to cover all our actions, we would be doomed to permanent silence! Sometimes we are called to proclaim Godβs love even when we are not yet fully able to live it. Does that mean we are hypocrites? Only when our own words no longer call us to conversion. Nobody completely lives up to his or her own ideals and visions. But by proclaiming our ideals and visions with great conviction and great humility, we may gradually grow into the truth we speak. As long as we know that our lives always will speak louder than our words, we can trust that our words will remain humble.
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Henri J.M. Nouwen (Bread for the Journey)
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Long black hair and deep clean blue eyes and skin pale white and lips blood red she's small and thin and worn and damaged. She is standing there.
What are you doing here?
I was taking a walk and I saw you and I followed you.
What do you want.
I want you to stop.
I breathe hard, stare hard, tense and coiled. There is still more tree for me to destroy I want that fucking tree. She smiles and she steps towards me, toward toward toward me, and she opens he r arms and I'm breathing hard staring hard tense and coiled she puts her arms around me with one hand not he back of my head and she pulls me into her arms and she holds me and she speaks.
It's okay.
I breathe hard, close my eyes, let myself be held.
It's okay.
Her voice calms me and her arms warm me and her smell lightens me and I can feel her heart beat and my heart slows and I stop shaking an the Fury melts into her safety an she holds me and she says.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Something else comes and it makes me feel weak and scared and fragile and I don't want to be hurt and this feeling is the feeling I have when I know I can be hurt and hurt deeper and more terribly than anything physical and I always fight it and control it and stop it but her voice calms me and her arms warm me and her smell lightens me and I can feel her heart beat and if she let me go right now I would fall and the need and confusion and fear and regret and horror and shame and weakness and fragility are exposed to the soft strength of her open arms and her simple word okay and I start to cry. I start to cry. I want to cry.
It comes in waves. THe waves roll deep and from deep the deep within me and I hold her and she holds me tighter and i let her and I let it and I let this and I have not felt this way this vulnerability or allowed myself to feel this way this vulnerability since I was ten years old and I don't know why I haven't and I don't know why I am now and I only know that I am and that it is scary terrifying frightening worse and better than anything I've ever felt crying in her arms just crying in her ams just crying.
She guides me to the ground, but she doesn't let me go. THe Gates are open and thirteen years of addiction, violence, hell and their accompaniments are manifesting themselves in dense tears and heavy sobs and a shortness of breath and a profound sense of loss. THe loss inhabits, fills and overwhelms me. It is the loss of a childhood of being a Teeenager of normalcy of happiness of love of trust anon reason of God of Family of friends of future of potential of dignity of humanity of sanity f myself of everything everything everything. I lost everything and I am lost reduced to a mass of mourning, sadness, grief, anguish and heartache. I am lost. I have lost. Everything. Everything.
It's wet and Lilly cradles me like a broken Child. My face and her shoulder and her shirt and her hair are wet with my tears. I slow down and I start to breathe slowly and deeply and her hair smells clean and I open my eyes because I want to see it an it is all that I can see. It is jet black almost blue and radiant with moisture. I want to touch it and I reach with one of my hands and I run my hand from the crown along her neck and her back to the base of her rib and it is a thin perfect sheer and I let it slowly drop from the tips of my fingers and when it is gone I miss it. I do it again and again and she lets me do it and she doesn't speak she just cradles me because I am broken. I am broken. Broken.
THere is noise and voices and Lilly pulls me in tighter and tighter and I know I pull her in tighter and tighter and I can feel her heart beating and I know she can feel my heart beating and they are speaking our hearts are speaking a language wordless old unknowable and true and we're pulling and holding and the noise is closer and the voices louder and Lilly whispers.
You're okay.
You're okay.
You're okay.
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James Frey
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Has it ever occurred to you, Master Ninefingers, that a sword is different from other weapons? Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but they hang on the belt like dumb brutes." He ran an eye over the hilt, plain cold metal scored with faint grooves for a good grip, glinting in the torchlight. "But a sword... a sword has a voice."
"Eh?"
"Sheathed it has little to say, to be sure, but you need only put your hand on the hilt and it begins to whisper in your enemy's ear." He wrapped his fingers tightly round the grip. "A gentle warning. A word of caution. Do you hear it?"
Logen nodded slowly. "Now," murmured Bayaz, "compare it to the sword half drawn." A foot length of metal hissed out of the sheath, a single silver letter shining near the hilt. The blade itself was dull, but its edge had a cold and frosty glint. "It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear it?"
Logen nodded again, his eye fastened on that glittering edge. "Now compare it to the sword full drawn." Bayaz whipped the long blade from its sheath with a faint ringing sound, brought it up so that the point hovered inches from Logen's face. "It shouts now, does it not? It screams defiance! It bellows a challenge! Do you hear it?"
"Mmm," said Logen, leaning back and staring slightly crosseyed at the shining point of the sword.
Bayaz let it drop and slid it gently back into its scabbard, something to Logen's relief. "Yes, a sword has a voice. Axes and maces and so forth are lethal enough, but a sword is a subtle weapon, and suited to a subtle man. You I think, Master Ninefingers, are subtler than you appear." Logen frowned as Bayaz held the sword out to him. He had been accused of many things in his life, but never subtlety. "Consider it a gift. My thanks for your good manners.
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Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1))
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They say marry the person with whom you are the closest to, the guy with whom you can share your 3 am thoughts with, sitting on a rooftop and discussing random things like why cavemen were hirsute or why the earth isnβt a square. The genie who knows what you want before you open your mouth. The angel who reads your mind before you can articulate your thoughts. The friend you can laugh and cry with. The brother whose arms are safer than any amount of security and protection the outside world can provide you. The parent that will support you through thick and thin, no matter what. The soul whose love for them in the river of your heart will never dilute, even when the currents get rough, and the waters, dark. The fellow who would tell you that he loves you every night and spend the day proving it through little gestures that speak much louder than any words of love. The person with whom you can hold hands when you turn eighty and announce to the world- βwe made it!
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Faraaz Kazi (More Than Just Friends)
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Louder than words
Why do we play with fire?
Why do we run our finger through the flame?
Why do we leave our hand on the stove
Although we know we're in for some pain?
Oh, why do we refuse to hang a light
When the streets are dangerous?
Why does it take an accident
Before the truth gets through to us?
Cages or wings
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words
Why should we try to be our best
When we can just get by and still gain?
Why do we nod our heads
Although we know
The boss is wrong as rain?
Why should we blaze a trail
When the well worn path
Seems safe and so inviting?
How as we travel, can we
See the dismay
And keep from fighting?
Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than words
What does it take
To wake up a generation?
How can you make someone
Take off and fly?
If we don't wake up
And shake up the nation
We'll eat the dust of the world
Wondering why, why
Why do we stay with lovers
Who we know, down deep
Just aren't right?
Why would we rather
Put ourselves through Hell
Than sleep alone at night?
Why do we follow leaders who never lead?
Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution?
If we're so free, tell me why?
Someone tell me why
So many people bleed?
Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love, baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder than
Louder than, louder than
Louder than, louder than
Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds
Fear or love baby?
Don't say the answer
Actions speak louder
Louder than, louder than, ooh
They speak louder
Louder than, louder than, ooh
Actions speak louder than
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Jonathan Larson (tick, tick ... BOOM!)