Words Quotes

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

~ John F. Kennedy

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

~ Mencius

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

~ Douglas Coupland

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

~ Martin H. Fischer

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.

~ Jack Canfield

One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone.

~ David D. Burns

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

~ Horace

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

~ Joyce Meyer

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

~ Antonin Scalia

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

~ Douglas Macarthur

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

~ Cyril Connolly

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

~ Rowan Atkinson

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

~ Suzanne Collins

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

~ Jim Elliot

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

~ Marc Andreessen

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

~ Dylan Thomas

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

~ Alfred Korzybski

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

~ Ellen G. White

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

~ Athanasius

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

~ Maurice Strong

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.

~ Matt Bomer

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

~ Sidney Poitier

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.

~ Jon Corzine

I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.

~ Ellie Goulding

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. In other words, they labeled me with words like overweight, unattractive, unappealing.

~ Nia Vardalos

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words,' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

~ Michael O'keefe

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

~ A.j. Styles

My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.

~ Star Jones