Careful Your Words Quotes

#1. 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

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#3. Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

Anne Sexton

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

Carl Sandburg

#5. After man knows the truth, he cannot be too careful of his words.

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Jinnul Jr.

#7. 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

#8. You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#13. Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

Confucius

#14. Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Douglas Wilson

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

Miriam Makeba

#18. So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor.

Deyth Banger

#19. 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

#20. Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.

Robert Grosseteste

#21. Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Tyler Perry

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

Fay Weldon

#23. The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

Dave Abrams

#24. Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

Gail Godwin

#25. Be careful of the words you say; And keep them soft and sweet; For you never know from day to day, Which ones you'll have to eat.

Henriette Eiby Christensen

#26. We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.

Jacques Barzun

#27. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Mary J. Blige

#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. Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!

Alan Rufus

#33. 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

#34. Just be careful," a Seattle homicide detective warned. "Maybe we'd better know where to find your dental records in case we need to identify you."
I laughed, but the words were jarring; the black humor that would surround Ted Bundy evermore begun.

Ann Rule

#35. We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#36. 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

#37. It came to her, all of a sudden, the words he'd said to her in Lance's house.
If I'm hurt, you must be very careful. No, Tana, you must listen. You must be careful of me.
He hadn't been worried he was going to get hurt. He'd been worried that he was going to hurt someone else.

Holly Black

#38. Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Gwendolyn Brooks

#39. 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

#40. Most of us have heard the saying, "You are what you eat." I have a different slant. I say, "You become what you study." In other words, be careful what you learn,

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#41. Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

Jim George

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

Na

#43. Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,

Steven Pinker

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

Margaret Atwood

#47. The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

A.L. Kitselman

#48. I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

Patricia C. Wrede

#49. Dostet darum." I love you. "I love you back," she said. I could hear the smile in her words. "And be careful.

Khaled Hosseini

#50. Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

Patricia Cornwell

#51. As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write.

Ross Macdonald

#52. Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.

Aisha Mirza

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

J.R. Ward

#54. Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

W. H. Auden

#55. Stories matter. We are composed of our stories. The human heart is made of the words we put in it. If someone ever says mean things to you, don't let those words go into your heart, and be careful not to put mean words in other people's hearts.

Susan Abulhawa

#56. Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading.

Steven Pinker

#57. One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.

Chuck Palahniuk

#58. Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.

Thomas S. Monson

#59. There was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together, a black-painted poetry. It was far less hateful sounding than when he didn't swear.

Maggie Stiefvater

#60. In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

Johnny Mathis

#61. 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

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

Dan Simmons

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

Liane Moriarty

#64. Be careful of what you allow your mind to dwell on. And the words that come out of your mouth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#65. Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Yoko Ono

#66. I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Robert Morgan

#67. If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.

Joyce Meyer

#68. 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

#69. Your thoughts, your words are reflections of who you truly are and who you could become. Be careful what you think of and of what you speak of for these can manifest in your life. So why not throw away all those negativity and just remain open to positivity? - Elizabeth's Quotes

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#70. Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?

Deyth Banger

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

Rhonda Byrne

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

Marcee Bonds

#73. And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

Ellen Hopkins

#74. Be careful what you say and do around a writer; your words and actions may become material.

A.D. Posey

#75. The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#76. 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