Careful With Words Quotes

#1. Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

Will Carleton

#2. Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid. Then we assign a word to a thought and we're stuck with that word for that thought, so be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.

George Carlin

#3. One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of
definition translate tendencies into habits.

Fay Weldon

#4. I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Anne McCaffrey

#5. Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

Elie Wiesel

#6. Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

William Carleton

#7. One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

Jose Saramago

#8. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Jinnul Jr.

#9. With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Orson Scott Card

#10. A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. Taking your language into my soul, feeling it separate from sentences to words burning with flight, 'til all I have left are meaningless letters pushing fire through my veins. Words can draw blood if you're very, very careful. - Broken Places

Rachel Thompson

#12. Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Just be careful with my damn dog. That animal gets hurt and you and I are having words." Well,

J.R. Ward

#14. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.

Roberto Bolano

#15. He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.

Dan Simmons

#16. The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

Liane Moriarty

#17. Well, be careful," she said, her words deliberate. She quickly twisted her head, as if making certain no one was behind her. When she turned back around, her green eyes were hard and filled with hate. "Because wouldn't it be terrible if you slipped and hurt yourself?

Kate White

#18. It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

Rhonda Byrne

#19. What you think becomes what you speak and what you speak will manifest in your life...be careful with your words

Marcee Bonds

#20. God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.

Andy Mineo

#21. Learn the 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

#22. If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.

Ted E. Brewerton

#23. Sticks and stones may break my bones
When aimed with careful art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart

Na

#24. Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

John Andreas Widtsoe

#25. My friends who are not from Sweden tell me that I'm more reserved or maybe more ... I guess the opposite of what a Latin American would be. Maybe because Scandinavians are more careful with their words and I guess it takes a lot to become a friend of a Swede.

Robyn

#26. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#27. Although this man spoke pure fluent ghetto, she liked his spirit. She could tell he was attracted to her, and that he was being ever careful with his words.

Brandi L. Bates

#28. The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

Samuel R. Delany

#29. When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

Myles Munroe

#30. I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender.

Patrick Rothfuss

#31. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!

Terry Pratchett

#33. You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.

Charlton Heston

#34. Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

Carl Sandburg

#35. To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#36. There is a "yoga body" aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, "Wow, you're so brave," simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.

Kathryn Budig