Top 32 Quotes About Choosing Your Words
#1. The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.
Lauren Kate
#2. But there's a restraining order in place.' She speaks slowly, choosing her words carefully. 'I'm not supposed to be this close to you.' You were never supposed to be this close to me,' I say, and I have no idea why.
Barry Lyga
#3. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.
Emily Giffin
#4. Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their eyes. But in fact they hear what they are reading far more than you realize.
William Zinsser
#5. I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
Peter Dinklage
#6. I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.
Gerry Spence
#7. ...choosing words is harder than I thought.
Cynthia Lord
#8. Therefore: In dwelling, choose modest quarters, in thinking, value stillness, in dealing with others, be kind, in choosing words, be sincere, in leading, be just, in working, be competent, in acting, choose the correct timing. Follow these words and there will be no error.
Laozi
#9. The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
Wilson Follett
#10. You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.
Frank Portman
#11. I think' she said, choosing her words with care, ; that any good impulse can be twisted into something evil.
Cassandra Clare
#12. What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.
Julius Charles Hare
#13. When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life.
Louise Hay
#14. among a soft folk obsessed with words, choosing the right word is nearly as important as doing the right thing." The
Brian Staveley
#15. By choosing the right words, you can take an idea that's happening in your head and try to make an idea like it happen in someone else's. That's what's happening right now.
Randall Munroe
#16. Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon
#17. Gethen shouted threats as they left, but the warnings were as empty as his sandy cell. His final words to Keefe were the only ones with any impact. "You're choosing the wrong side, boy. You'll regret it when you see your mother's vision realized. But then it'll be too late.
Shannon Messenger
#18. With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.
Alaric Hutchinson
#19. Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over every word. It's really crafting this whole piece from nothing.
Jonathan Tropper
#20. Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.
Amos Oz
#21. No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
Roddy Doyle
#22. Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.
Elizabeth Peters
#23. I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.
"I'm no expert," I began, choosing my words carefully. "Well - actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.
Richelle Mead
#24. I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.
Marilynne Robinson
#25. INTEGRITY ... Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.
Tanya Masse
#26. Re-forming after the chaos," I said, remembering Raquel's words. "Choosing what we'll do with how things are now, who we'll be in this new world where the only magic left is what we make ourselves.
Kiersten White
#27. Many things in life are difficult," said Reven, choosing his words carefully. "But to those who persevere, all things are possible.
Sage Blackwood
#28. I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#29. Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.
Paul David Tripp
#30. You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
A. L. Kennedy
#31. The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?
Stephen King
#32. I grip him. "Don't leave me."
He kisses my lips, "Never again. This isn't me leaving you. This is me choosing you." He throws my words back at me.
He kisses me once more and then pushes off. He leaves and doesn't look back. I fight the urge to run after him.
Tara Brown
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