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Quotes About Words

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.
~ Radhanath Swami
The fact of the matter is actions speak louder than words.
~ Barbara Boxer
Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.
~ janet todd
Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.
~ Shon Mehta
Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.
~ Steve Maraboli
I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
~ Barack Obama
Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.
~ Susan Sontag
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
~ Jane Goodall
A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
~ Anne Bradstreet
People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.
~ Penelope Gilliatt
And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.
~ Wendell Berry
their spinster amanuensis, the
~ Whit Stillman
has sadly deprived our language of many of the fertile and resonant words which the Englishman of prior centuries had at his disposal. "Argufy" is one such; the dictionary defines it as "to argue or quarrel, typically about something trivial." Certainly we have all seen occasions where innocuous subjects are "argufied"; an
~ Whit Stillman
I would love to teach every kid to say fuck. Hang on, now, hang on, listen to why. The reason is because to me, that is a word that doesn't have any effect. But stupid and dummy? You can say it to someone who is six and you can say it to someone who is a hundred and six and they will hunch their shoulders and it will be like somebody kicked them in the stomach because they are harsh, ugly words.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
About nine feet six and I weigh twenty stone, he answered, and almost laughed aloud. And how does it end? It ends with words. Words can kill anything. It ends with cold words; words like fire that stick in the structure and take hold and lick it up, blackening and charring it, bringing it down in smoking ruins. It ends in suspicion of things not done, and in the certainty of things done and remembered. It
~ Wilbur Smith
Kelimeler bizi yaralayacaklar? zaman devleÅŸir, bize hizmet edecekleri zamansa cüceleÅŸirler.
~ Wilkie Collins
Did you fall asleep? No. I couldn't sleep that night. You were restless? I was thinking of you. The answer almost unmanned me. Something in the tone, even more than in the words, went straight to my heart. It was only after pausing a little first that I was able to go on.
~ Wilkie Collins
Erkekler bize söyledikleri ac? sözleri ne kadar iyi hat?rlad???m?z? ve can?m?z? nas?l yakt?klar?n? pek bilmezler.
~ Wilkie Collins
The secret which that confession discloses should be told with little effort, for it has indirectly escaped me already. The poor weak words, which have failed to describe Miss Fairlie, have succeeded in betraying the sensations she awakened in me. It is so with us all. Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. I loved her.
~ Wilkie Collins