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Quotes About Words

verdade é a coisa mais elegante e maravilhosa do mundo, até que você usá-lo como uma arma para ferir deliberadamente outros. ser verdadeiro em todos os momentos, mas nunca ser brutal e venenoso. sempre ser bom para as pessoas, não importa o que os outros dizem ou fazem. Cheers!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
We must use our Words with caution, for they become our Actions; then our Actions become our Habits; and our Habits become our Character; and ultimately our Character becomes our Destiny. Thus the creator of one's Words is always the master of one's Destiny.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.
~ Derek Landy
They're not going to arrest you,' Skulduggery said as they walked through the door. 'They might glare at you and say angry words, but they won't arrest you. Well, they might arrest you. There's a good chance they will. But the important thing is that I've done nothing wrong.' 'For once.
~ Derek Landy
Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly . . . remind you of anyone?" "Yes. Gordon." "Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.
~ Derek Landy
Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse.
~ Derek Landy
Those are dangerous words you speak." "Well then," Wreath said, "it's a good thing you're not in charge, or I'd really be in trouble, wouldn't I?
~ Derek Landy
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.
~ Chanakya
There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
~ Sai Baba
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
~ W. S. Merwin
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
~ Bill Vaughan
The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
~ Maimonides
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
~ Thomas de Quincey
The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
~ Plutarch
Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality
~ Harold Geneen
There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!
~ Fela Durotoye
I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
~ Emo Philips
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
~ Sutton Foster
The three most important aspects of debugging and real estate are the same: Location, Location, and Location.
~ Richard E. Pattis
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
~ Jonathan Swift
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn