The Words Quotes

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Our attitude is more honest and more consistent than our words.

My God, don't shoot !

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

My old man is a man of few words.

True words seem false.

This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

I think you believe in these words, I think - three very important words, peace through strength, right. Peace through strength.

[My style in three words] youthful, sweet, and diverse.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I discovered that in life, one has got to serve to be observed, if one serve not, one will probably be reserved. Don't wisdom teach this?

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.

It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

Many a true word is spoken in jest

I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.