Words Quotes

Epictetus - all philosophy lies in two words sustain and...
Kurt vonnegut, hocus pocus - during my three years in vietnam, i certainly...
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
Homer, the odyssey - there is a time for many words, and there is also...
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
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis Mcginley
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
Homer, The Iliad
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
Learned Hand
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
Preach the gospel at all times - - If necessary, use words.
Saint Francis of Assisi
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffe
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
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Theresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echos are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Andrew Alden
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Words must be weighed, not counted.
Polish Prove
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
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
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cato the Elde
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
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
Jose Antonio Burciaga
In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words.
Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Use soft words and hard arguments.
English Prove
Fame - A few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
John Christian Bovee
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
Moralia