Words Quotes
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
When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.Author Unknown
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.Confucius
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
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
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.Orson Scott Card
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.Plutarch
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
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
Words have a longer life than deeds.Pindar, Nemean Odes
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
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.Unknown
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.Saint Francis of Assisi
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.Nicolas Boileau
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.Lech Walesa
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.Socrates
Words - - So innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.Nathaniel Hawthorne
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.Ingrid Bengis
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.St. Francis of Assissi
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.Mother Teresa
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
