Words Quotes

Martin luther king, jr. - in the end, we will remember not the words of our...
Sir winston churchill - macdonald has the gift of compressing the largest...
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
John M. Keynes
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
Edmund Burke
Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
Unknown - words lead to deeds.... they prepare the soul,...
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
St. Francis of Assissi
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours. Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
William Cowpe
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spence
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as You leave me no other choice but to...
CIA Manual
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.
Marcel Marceau
Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.
George Du Maurie
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
Speak what you think to - Day in words as hard as cannon - Balls and to - Morrow speak what to - Morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to - Day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
Confucius
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Lord Byron
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
Fran Lebowitz