Quotes About Words

There was no spoken testimony, no verbal deposition, no swearing upon holy books, for words alone could lie. Decision and action, repeated over time, did not.

Dear Charity, Is anything worth fighting for? Doubtful Dear Doubtful, Yes, many things: children, friendship, the future. Sour cream fudge rum cake with pecans. fight with your mind, your heart, your words. Violence is always a last resort. Charity

Hope' is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune without the words/And never stops–at all.

This is the inscription Ben wrote inside the book: "First you must have the images. Then come the words." —Robert James Waller.

He is a man who is comfortable airing his opinions, and confident that every single word that comes out of his mouth is not just correct, but fascinating.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

The Word ought to be exposed in the words

Legislation, whether political or civil, never does more than proclaim, express in words, the will of economic relations.

Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

When a man eats his words, that's recycling.

The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.