Words Quotes

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

Edward R. Murrow

People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.

Gamal Abdel Nasse

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

William Shakespeare

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.

James Arthur Baldwin

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 3 scene 3

Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Joan Walsh Anglund

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Adrienne Rich

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

Eknath Easwaran

Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.

Andrew Alden

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

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Ricthe

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

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

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

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Learned Hand

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

Jonathan Swift

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.

Home

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?

Abba Eban

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

John Dewey

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

Cato the Elde

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Lech Walesa

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774