Quotes About Words

Pues tú eres Dios, oh Soberano SEÑOR; tus palabras son verdad, y le has prometido estas cosas buenas a tu siervo. 2 SAMUEL 7.28 (NTV)

Words are powerful. If you've been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement.

when your tongue is sharp enough to slice a rock. How

In Texas there's so much space words have a way Of getting lost in the silence before they're spoken So people hang on a long time to what they have to say; And when they say it the silence is not broken, But it absorbs the words and slowly gives them Over to miles of white-gold plains and grey-green hills, And they are part of that silence that outlives them.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don't do that. Some day we'll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Your grandmother says you read a lot. Every chance you get. That's good, but not good enough. Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." I

I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

I would miss Mrs. Flowers, for she had given me her secret word which...was to serve me all my life: books.

We, this people, on this mote of matter In whose mouths abide cankerous words Which challenge out very existence Yet out of those same mouths Come songs of such exquisite sweetness

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.

words of a man were meaningless. But actions spoke volumes, and it was always through deeds that the true measure of a man could be ascertained.

How can I possibly resist you when you say such pretty words?

I'll remember the things you said to me and I'll cherish them always.

I love you," she whispered. "I told myself I wouldn't make it hard, that I'd never breathe those words. But 'tis harder for me to go without saying them. I need to give them to you.

I snatched the paper away from Dopey. Hey, he yelled. I was reading that! Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try, I said.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect," he said softly. First, I thought, I will see gods walking the earth. He went on. "For now I will have your obedience." His ability to convey a world of threat in so few words was remarkable.

Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

Glorious,' said Steerpike, 'is a dictionary word. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.