Quotes About Words

Children long for this—a voice, a way of being heard—but many sense that there is no one in the world to hear their words, so they are drawn to ways of malice. If they cannot sing, they scream. They are vessels of the spirit but the spirit sometimes is entombed; it can't get out, and so they smash it!

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

Your language indicates??and limits??what you think.

Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

Evil speech kills three people: the one who says it, the one who listens to it, and the one about whom it is said.

Despite myself, of course, I also couldn't help being flattered by Lockwood's words of praise.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)

Damn. How much damage can you do with a pen?

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

La Medicina es el arte de acompañar con palabras griegas al sepulcro.

If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.

Fuck words, nothing spoken comprehends the defiantly ephemeral. I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile in any language.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours.

Bonhoeffer had always struggled with the "problem" of being charming. He mistrusted it and wanted the words and logic of what he said to be the only things to which others responded.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God.

Speaking' and 'Saying' are two different languages. Speaking discharges resonance. Saying emanates ideas. ( "Words flew away like birds" )

It is the curse of quick words--when one shouldn't respond, they come, and when one needs to speak, they are mysteriously absent.