Quotes About Words

Saying 'Preach the Gospel Daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

What you SAY and what you DO are two different things. It's the difference in the two that shows the truth to who you are.

We're what we think we will be. What we say becomes reality, what we do not do becomes our reality.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Our words reveal our thoughts; Our manners mirror our self esteem; Our actions reflect our character; Our habits predict the future.

You may be condemned and sentenced to death by WORDS but if your Inner Conscience is clear, it will justify your innocence and uphold your Freedom within.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom... Our thoughts, our words and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

A drunk mans words are a sober mans thoughts.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Un sfert de via?? îl pierdem f?când leg?turi. Tot felul de leg?turi între idei, între fluturi, între lucruri ?i praf. Totul curge a?a de repede, ?i noi tot mai facem leg?turi între subiect ?i predicat. Trebuie s?-i d?m drum vie?ii, a?a cum ne vine exact, s? nu mai încerc?m s? facem leg?turi care nu ?in. De când spun cuvinte f?r? ?ir, simt c?-mi recuperez ani frumo?i din via??.

Hai s? credem tot ce spunem, E un joc foarte frumos. Tu s?-mi spui: "Te iubesc" ?i eu s? m? bucur copil?re?te.

If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.

el lenguaje es también un jardín.

Ella no podrá saber nunca de qué me estaba salvando con esas palabras.

Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly.

Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.

Yet it was . . . Asahel who knew those books secretly by heart, and read, as laboriously as he did everything else, any scrap of paper with printing on it, poring hungrily over the magic of words.

When Christianity turns into a noun, it becomes a turnoff. Christianity was always intended to be a verb. And, more specifically, an action verb. The title of the book of Acts says it all, doesn't it? It's not the book of Ideas or Theories or Words. It's the book of Acts. If the twenty-first-century church said less and did more, maybe we would have the same kind of impact the first-century church did.