The Words Quotes

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

There is but one reliance.

A song can be more than words and music ... when sung with soul a song carries you to another world, to a place where no matter how much pain you feel, you are never alone.

I believe in using words, not fists.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Good words cool more than cold water.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Music is only love looking for words.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.