Quotes About Words

No one wants to disappear. Words pin things down and make them real, and they last so much longer than we do.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that.

There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.

phrases—a group of words that have no subject-verb combination and usually act as a modifier.

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

I am. I think. I will. ... What must I say besides? These are the words. This is the answer.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the tears rejoice Because they can flow and flow. Sweetbrier around Moscow, Alas! Somehow it is here ... And all this they will call Love eternal.

Oh, there are unrepeated words, Who ever said wasted more than he should. Inexhaustible only is the blue Of sky and generosity of God.

He was convinced, I could see, that this time 'round his words would produce quite the opposite effect on me, as in favorable, as in advantageous, especially as I'd had two brothers in the renouncers myself.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

Es gibt keinen Kummer, über den ein Buch nicht hinwegtrösten könnte, sagte der große Dichter. Wir werden sehen.

Bon. Il ne te reste plus que cinq minutes pour arriver à prononcer une phrase de sept mots, c'est faisable, non? Allez, badinait-il pour de faux, si c'est trop, sept, trois me suffiraient...Mais les bons, hein? Merde! J'ai pas composté mon billet...Alors?

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

But words can beat down a person as surely as fists

A dumb-ass piece of wisdom that has been proven wrong too many times to count. Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.

Meg nodded. She didn't understand the feeling, but she turned the words into a kind of image that she could recall later. "Anyway

Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.