Quotes About Words

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Ps. 19:14)

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

Oh, the positive power of an instructed tongue! How many weary people do we encounter day after day who could use a sustaining word?

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn't help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. John 6:63

God's words possess omnipotent achieving and accomplishing power. Our words can have potent achieving and accomplishing power.

From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is satisfied; he is filled with the product of his lips. Proverbs 18:20

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. James 3:10

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:13

A man will be satisfied with good by the words of his mouth, and the work of a man's hands will reward him. Proverbs 12:14

Pay attention to my words; listen closely to my sayings… . For they are life to those who find them, and health to one's whole body. Proverbs 4:20, 22

Words wield power, both divine and mortal. We might think of the comparison of the power of words like this: God's words are omnipotent. Our words are potent.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear.