Words Quotes

Use the right word and not its second cousin

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.
Selwyn Hughes

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall

Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words
Douglas Meador

A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't
Persian Proverb

Good words cost no more than bad.

The true poem rests between the words.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

The true poem rests between the words.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

To-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking.

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German
Clarence Nash

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.

My words are the words of my father, and the words of my father are the words of my grandfather, and the words of my grandfather are the words of my great-grandfathers - Hasan and Husayn; and their words are the words of Ali, and the words of Ali are the words of the Prophet of Allah; and the words of the Prophet are the words of Allah.

The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."

By words the mind is winged.

Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean? Assimilation, that's what.







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