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Quotes About Words

Tell me you're truth. I'm listening.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.
~ David Benioff, City of Thieves
The 'fact' of my actions frequently collide with the 'fiction' of my words. And at what point will I live what I say, so I will avoid what I do?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Without Scripture, our words would be without meaning!
~ Mary Kate
You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the truth has no twin.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it's ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
~ Mencius, Mencius
As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad's memorial plaque. Truth doesn't lie in the heart of fortune… it's under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.
~ Beth Revis, The Body Electric
When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.
~ Debasish Mridha
Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.
~ Munia Khan
Words are nets through which all truth escapes("News From The World")
~ Paula Fox, Short Shorts
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
~ Dean Koontz, Innocence
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
~ Bill Johnson
I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Being a writer makes you immortal.
~ Tamara Stamenkovic
Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.
~ Jackie Kennedy
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
~ C. S. Lewis
You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.
~ Joel Osteen
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
~ Aaliyah
People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
~ Bob Marley
I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.
~ Cassandra Clare
One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.
~ Lucy Lawless
Kanal' means 'sewer' as well as 'channel'. 'Kanakafü' has echoes of 'Kacke', a baby word for faeces.
~ Stephen Bungay
The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.
~ Stephen Cosgrove
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases and yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.
~ Stephen Fry