Words Quotes

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

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.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.