Words Quotes

Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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You can stroke people with words.

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Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

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When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

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Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

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Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

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He dropped pejoratives like subliminal seasoning.

Jim Bishop

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Charles Manson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Adlai Stevenson

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all. The bonds of words are too weak to bridle man's ambition, avarice, anger, and other passions, without the fear of some coercive power.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1660

Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Pearl Strachan Hurd