Quotes About Words

If your thoughts and your actions and your words harmonize, you are bound to influence those with whom you come in contact, more or less toward your way of thinking.

The Koran, the revealed word of God, was the closest thing to a miracle in Mohammed's life. He had not been a poet; he had no gift of words. Yet the verses of the Koran, as he received them and recited them to the faithful, were better than any verses which the professional poets of the tribes could produce. This, to the Arabs, was a miracle. To them the gift of words was the greatest gift, the poet was all-powerful.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of a destructive "kick-back." The release of destructive thought impulses, alone, without the aid of words, produces also a "kick-back" in more ways than one.

Yet before another ten years had passed, he was dictator of all Arabia, ruler of Mecca, and the head of a New World religion which was to sweep to the Danube and the Pyrenees before exhausting the impetus he gave it. That impetus was three­fold: the power of words, the efficacy of prayer and man's kinship with God.

Be careful of your words. Man shall be held accountable for his lightest word. If you talk about substance in a negative way, your finances will be decreased, but if you talk about it in an appreciative, large way, you will be prospered.

Think well before you speak because your words may plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of some other person.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

A mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words.

Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots in words.

Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds).

But he left us with a good lesson: never trust the words of a man who is not free.

By throwing enough words together, some unusual and magical-sounding metaphor is bound to emerge according to the laws of combinatorics.

Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio: only when the words outperform silence

Another forgotten property of stressors is in language acquisition—I don't know anyone who ever learned to speak his mother tongue in a textbook, starting with grammar and, checked by biquarterly exams, systematically fitting words to the acquired rules.

Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk

but I know of nobody who is atheist in both actions and words

Las palabras se habían ido acumulando en su interior sobre todo durante aquella última época en la que había guardado cama con la pierna enyesada fantaseando con las cartas que le llegaban de Viareggio, fumando y abanicándose apoyada en los cojines y rodeada de interlocutores imaginarios y de siluetas inciertas y cambiantes que asentían sonriendo.

the way we always speak with modest words, we never use clear and urgent words, our words are gray, harmless, floating, and useless

You really have to love words if you're going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly spend a lot of time with words.

I have always loved the feel of books, the way they give a literal weight to words and make of them a sacred object.

Un poète n'est pas, comme on le croit, celui qui sait mieux que d'autres regarder la terre et le ciel, écouter le bruit de la mer, le gazouillis des sources et des oiseaux, un poète, vous en serez un, mon petit ami - les pièces sonnent, elle salue bien bas - un poète, on l'a dit et c'est vrai, c'est celui qui sait fabriquer un poème avec des mots.

The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of the misery they witnessed; and they felt that mere curiosity would not authorize a longer intrusion. So soon, therefore, as they had relieved, according to their power, the poverty that seemed to be the least evil of this cottage, they emerged into the open air.

Air that had not been breathed once and again! air that had not been spoken into words of falsehood, formality, and error, like all the air of the dusky city!

Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!