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Quotes About Words

Power cannot accrue to those who squander their treasure of words.
~ Robert Greene
lesson: Once the words are out, you cannot take them back. Keep them under control. Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.
~ Robert Greene
Emotions originate as physical arousal designed to capture our attention and cause us to take notice of something around us. They begin as chemical reactions and sensations that we must then translate into words to try to understand
~ Robert Greene
Be particularly careful with sarcasm: The momentary satisfaction you gain with your biting words will be outweighed by the price you pay.
~ Robert Greene
Understand this: Words are a dime a dozen. Everyone knows that in the heat of an argument, we will all say anything to support our cause. We will quote the Bible, refer to unverifiable statistics. Who can be persuaded by bags of air like that? Action and demonstration are much more powerful and meaningful.
~ Robert Greene
Your honesty is likely to offend people; it is much more prudent to tailor your words, telling people what they want to hear rather than the coarse and ugly truth of what you feel or think.
~ Robert Greene
We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.
~ Robert Greene
a person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.
~ Robert Greene
What are the only weapons I possess, Tiro? he asked me, and then he answered his own question. These. he said, gesturing at his books. Words. Caesar and Pompey have their soldiers, Crassus his wealth, Clodius his bullies on the street. My only legions are my words. By language I rose, and by language I shall survive.
~ Robert Harris
All that will remain of us is what is written down.
~ Robert Harris
Cuáles son las únicas armas que poseo, Tiro? -me preguntó, y él mismo respondió-: Estas -dijo, señalando sus libros-. Las palabras. César y Pompeyo tienen soldados; Craso, dinero; Clodio, los matones de la calle. Mis legiones son mis palabras. Gracias a ellas he llegado donde estoy, y gracias a ellas sobreviviré.
~ Robert Harris
Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
~ Robert Jordan
This meeting had only one real purpose, a simple and ancient ceremony of the Borderlands that had been recorded only seven times in all the years since the Breaking. A simple ceremony that would commit them beyond anything words could do, however strong.
~ Robert Jordan
Ucapan orang bodoh sama saja dengan debu Rand al'Thor
~ Robert Jordan
We'll talk about it," she murmured, the bond filling with stubborn resolve. The most dire words a woman can say short of "I'm going to kill you," Rand thought.
~ Robert Jordan
We'll talk about it," she murmured, the bond filling with stubborn resolve. The most dire words a woman can say short of "I'm going to kill you
~ Robert Jordan
For the hundredth time—or so it seemed to her—she considered the words to use. "Before we left Tar Valon I made arrangements, should anything happen to me, for your bond to pass to another." He stared at her, silent. "When you feel my death, you will find yourself compelled to seek her out immediately. I do not want you to be surprised by it.
~ Robert Jordan
I've learned the truth and wisdom in rich dad's words. So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself. And if things must change, first, I must change.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain
~ Robert Ludlum
And I know now it will happen over and over again until it stops for you. You hear words, you see images, and fragments of things come back to you that you can't understand, but because they're there you condemn yourself. You always will condemn yourself until someone proves to you that whatever you were Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there are others using you, who will sacrifice you. But there's also someone else out there who wants to help you, help us. That's the message!
~ Robert Ludlum
Words have power. They can save, cure, uplift, devastate, deflate, and kill. And unconscious priming with words influences pro- and antisocial behaviors.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
What an important lesson for all of us! The words that come out of our mouths are a direct indicator of what is in our hearts. Idle
~ Robert Morris
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. MARK TWAIN Did
~ Robert Morris
Her tongue could kill at twenty paces.
~ Robert Rodi