Words Quotes

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

All our words and actions pass in review before God.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.

We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

The unspoken word never does harm.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

And empty words are evil.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

I like good strong words that mean something.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.