Words

29 quotes.

• A word after a word after a word is power.

  Margaret Atwood

• The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. It's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

  Mark Twain

• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  Rudyard Kipling

• ...the fog is rising.

  Emily Dickinson's last words

• Actions lie louder than words.

  Carolyn Wells

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  Wendell Johnson

• Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

  George Crane

• Spread a little sunshine.

  Jack Lemmon's father's last words

• For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

  Ingrid Bengis

• Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

  Karl Marx to his housekeeper

• Good words cost no more than bad.

  Thomas Fuller

• Gratitude takes three forms: A feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

  Anonymous

• How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

  Herbert Spencer

• I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

  Anonymous

• Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth -- in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words -- in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

  Stephen R. Covey

• It is never wholly possible for me to mean what I say or say what I mean, because the fact of my using signs [words] at all always leaves my meaning dispersed, divided, and never quite at one with itself.

  Terry Eagleton

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but there echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Lao-Tse

• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

  Henry B. Adams

• The 10 Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincon's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.

  The Atlanta Journal

• The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

  Felelon

• The paper burns, but the words fly away.

  Ben Joseph Akiba

• We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

  H. R. Haldeman, testifying in his own defense

• When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

• Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

  Samuel Palmer

• Words and hearts should be handled with care for words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.

  Anonymous

• Words divide us, actions unite us.

  Slogan of the Tupamaros

• Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

  Joseph Joubert

• You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.

  Judge Hall

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