Please Be Careful With Your Words Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. 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

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

Mary J. Blige

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Fay Weldon

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

Tyler Perry

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Miriam Makeba

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Eugene H. Peterson

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Jinnul Jr.

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

Florence Scovel Shinn

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

Carl Sandburg

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

Anne Sexton

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz