Words Quotes
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.Hazrat Inayat Khan
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
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.Logan Pearsall Smith
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.Bertha Flowers
We have too many high - Sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.Bible, Proverbs 15: 1 (KJV)
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words.Marcel Marceau
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.William Shakespeare
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.Thomas Jefferson
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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 can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.Sidney Madwed
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.Jim Rohn
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
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.Charles Dickens
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.Ann Landers
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.Joan Baez
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.John Ruskin
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.Andrew Alden
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.Eddie Myers
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
James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.Herbert Hoove
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.Abraham Lincoln
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.William Shakespeare
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.Homer, The Iliad
I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years.Margaret Hilda Thatche
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
