My Words Quotes
Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.'
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.