Quotes About Words

He could now inhabit the world of words, with, at the back of his melancholy, a solace he had not known before

Changing the words you use will help you change your attitude to the situation you're in and the life you live. Do you hear that? The words we use become the life we live.

The mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse,' says Proverbs 10:11 (MSG).

Trying often comes before failure. Endeavour more often leads to success. But they are just words, I hear you say. Why does it matter whether we say 'try' or 'endeavour'? It matters, believe me. Our words become our attitudes and our attitudes become our life.

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe

Pero no me imaginaba que se pudiera comunicar sinceramente con alguien. En los libros la gente se hace declaraciones de amor, de odio, pone su corazón en frases; en la vida uno nunca pronuncia palabras que pesan

I have had the pain of fragmentation deeply impressed upon my consciousness. The alienation felt by many people who are concerned about domination – the struggle we have even to make of our words a language that can be shared, understood.

Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren.

The only canons I formed in my mind were filled with the writers with whom I felt a soul inspiring resonance, the writers whose works were great to me because they gave me words, wisdom, and visions powerful enough to transform me and my world.

Civility and political correctness, contrary to the thinking of many, are not the same. Civility constrains behavior and words based on genuine caring about others, while political correctness is only a facade of caring while hoping to cultivate public approval.

We all have choices in the way we react to the words we hear. Our lives and the lives of all those around us will be significantly improved if we choose to react positively rather than negatively.

Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life. PROVERBS 18:21

Good, because words are important, Trafford. Clear thinking. Logic. Precision. Above all, understanding. You can understand nothing if words can mean anything.

If the words of this book are misspelled, but accidentally spell other words correctly, and also accidentally fall into a grammatically coherent arrangement, where coherency is defined as whatever doesn't upset people, it means this book is legally another book, and not this book.

Arsenius always used to say this, 'Why, words, did I let you get out? I have often been sorry that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Æthelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!

My words still sounded lame, but the truth so often limps off the tongue in times of crisis. Just when we most need to speak with the tongues of angels, we stumble with uncertain words.

Words are like breath," she said. "You say them and they're gone. But writing traps them. You could write down stories, poems.

L'antisémitisme est un délire très spécial dont l'une des particularités a toujours été, à chacune des étapes de son histoire, de choisir les justes mots qui donneront à sa déraison les apparences de la raison.

De literatuur of het leven? Het leven want de literatuur; het leven leeft voor mij pas echt, het is pas echt diepgaand en lijfelijk het leven, wanneer ik weet dat ik er woorden aan zal kunnen ontrukken.

Weil die Wahrheit dessen, was man redet, das ist, was man tut, kann man das Reden auch lassen.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

I'm getting on pretty well with German, though I haven't arrived at the stage of finding it a reasonable medium for the expression of thought. I think the original couple who spoke it must have died rather soon after the Tower of Babel, leaving a rather pedantically-minded baby, who had learnt all the words of one syllable, and had to make up the long ones with them – at least how else can you account for such words as Handschule and be-ab-sichtigen? I

To begin with the logical objection: 'When we have found a resemblance among several objects,' Hume says, 'we apply the same name to all of them.' Every nominalist would agree. But in fact a common name, such as 'cat,' is just as unreal as the universal CAT is. The nominalist solution of the problem of universals thus fails through being insufficiently drastic in the application of its own principles; it mistakenly applies these principles only to 'things,' and not also to words.