Quotes About Words

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.

You can summon them in your time of need, and they won't fail you. God's words will never betray you, my girl.

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.

Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

Wherever you go, there we are. It wasn't true. But it made him feel better. That was what words could do.

A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left long bloody marks wherever they fell.

Jeg vilde bare vise, hvilken Højde, man kunde drive det til med Ord, derfor ble disse Stumper bare Ord, pene Ord, Klingeling.

There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words. He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. I come to you as a man unfinished.

Mortal, if there's one thing I've learned in all my years, it's this: lies are curses you place

I want the Reader of Words to scan it before I send." She bent down and pressed a kiss to his neck. "Our story's pretty epic.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

Neither. He's a—a—a meat dog.

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

True sincerity works more than a magnet. It attracts, bond and take people farther far better than mere action and words!

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.