Quotes About Eating Your Words

#1. It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting.
No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#2. I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#3. At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#4. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.

Tim Muehlhoff

#5. And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

Wendell Berry

#6. Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

Marcel Boulestin

#7. I like 'fresh fruit flan'," said the donkey. "Three excellent words."
"I don't have one," said Noah immediately before the question could even be asked, and the donkey opened his eyes wide in suprise, and for a moment Noah wondered whether he might even consider eating him.

John Boyne

#8. We wrapped ourselves in towels and went back in, eating sandwiches on the bed while Kaidan made fun of the pop love ballads on Marna's playlist. Funny how he knew the words to so many of them.

Wendy Higgins

#9. Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn't it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.

Sol Luckman

#10. he was surgically removing a malignant tumor that I'd been carrying around for years. A tumor that had been eating away at my insides. A tumor that, with his words, suddenly was gone. You

Kristen Ashley

#11. It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

Martha Beck

#12. I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

#13. The great authors share their souls with us- literally.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.

Peter Anderson

#15. Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.
In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.

Debasish Mridha

#16. But old habits die hard.

J.D. Robb

#17. Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Bruce Campbell

#18. Words were cannibals eating up their own past.

-- Like Being Killed

Ellen Miller

#19. Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#20. If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

Peter Kropotkin

#21. If he touches me, I'll kill him.' 'If he touches you, I'll kill him,' he said, gazing deep into her eyes.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#22. Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.

Anthony Liccione

#23. We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Dave Haywood

#24. If the body dies, life ends! If the body is disturbed, life is disturbed. If the mind is not sound, everything least sound well to the mind! Mind your body; mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything ... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.

Demi Lovato

#26. Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Umberto Eco

#27. Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.

Max Barry

#28. I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you.

Roy Orbison

#29. Because it can be very difficult to go talk to a member of the clergy, people must be able to count on the promise that what they say will not be repeated. Therefore, like therapists, ministers practice confidentiality in order to establish trust with those in their care.

Matthew Floding

#30. Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston S. Churchill

#31. I'm not a racist, it's my principle: despite the fact that I'm on a diet and I should eat only white meat I eat also red and dark (I hope this is not a racist words?) with great relish, enjoying every bite.

Bryanna Reid

#32. People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

Terry Pratchett

#33. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl