Words Quotes

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

~ Maya Angelou

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

~ Molière

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

~ Franz Kafka

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

~ Charles Bukowski

The change of the word does not alter the matter

~ Thomas More

Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike; but those who fight with persuasion know no limits – not time, nor status, nor chance.

~ A.j. Darkholme

I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.

~ Daisy Whitney

words are much stronger than I am.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

~ Clarice Lispector

Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion—a roof I can't live under? —All those blueprints, closings of gaps,measurings, calculations? A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. I'm naked, ignorant, a naked man fleeing across the roofs who could with a shade of difference be sitting in the lamplight against the cream wallpaper reading—not with indifference—about a naked man fleeing across the roofs.

~ Adrienne Rich

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

~ Criss Jami

Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

~ Doug Dorst

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

~ Anaïs Nin

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

~ Nina George

Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

~ Lao Tzu

Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.

~ A.j. Darkholme

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

~ Anthony Liccione

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of green?

~ Stan Brakhage

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

~ James Webb Young

Our personal story has many chapters that reconnoiter universal themes. We each struggle to understand ourselves and aspire to make ourselves known to the world. We struggle to win the love of other people. We seek to pick all the low hanging fruit that we come across in our journey through the corridor of time. We write our story in the Niagara of emotional experiences that flowing watercourse makes us human. We use a profusion of words, symbols, and the nuances pulled from a rich library of language to depict the cascade of our visions, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, dreams, and infelicitous thoughts. We use logical and dialectal thought processes when communing with our inner self. We use self-speak along with the esemplastic powers of poetic imagination, sprinkled with the fizz of creativity, to cohere disparate chapters of our life into a unified whole and relay the effervescence of our story to other people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

~ Sanober Khan

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

~ Criss Jami

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.

~ Nicole Bonomi

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

~ J.m. Varner

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

~ Aberjhani

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

~ Gaylord Nelson

Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind.

~ Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Our vocabulary may become a real time algorithmic word bank. Could you imagine having a conversation like that? Where the meaning of words constantly adapts?

~ Natasha Tsakos

Your words determine who you are and who you want to be.

~ Salma Issah

It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

~ Rachel Hartman