Words Quotes
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.A. A. Milne, Winnie - The - Pooh
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.Mahatma Gandhi
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.William Shakespeare
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.George Gordon Byron
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.William Shakespeare
If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies.Chinese Prove
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.Robert Southey
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
I banish fear with two words: you lead.Demetri Kolokotronis
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.Martin Luther King, Jr.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.William Shakespeare
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self - Reliance", 1841
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.Buddha
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
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.Harold Ross
The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.Unknown
A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words.... and his silences.Simon MacDonald
We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.Mary McCarthy
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?Abba Eban
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.Pythagoras
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
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
All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain.Epictetus
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.Lewis Mumford
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.Herman Melville
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
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
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
