Words Quotes

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

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

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

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Pythagoras

All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.

Epictetus

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. On the Vietnam Wa.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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

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

Socrates

When words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05

In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - - In other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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

Homer, The Iliad

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Buddha

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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittie

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - - The book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

Jose Antonio Burciaga

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

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

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

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

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

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

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

Joan Walsh Anglund

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

Carol Burnett

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

Abba Eban

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicholas Boileau

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

William Shakespeare

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain

You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon