Quotes About Having To Eat Your Words

#1. The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Swallowing your words before you say them is better than having to eat them afterward.

Kate Lloyd

#3. 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

#4. May the words come easy, the doubt be weak, and the coffee strong enough to eat through steel. (I don't drink coffee...but I understand most authors do, and they like it with a bit of fight in it.) Now, let us boot up, sit down, and accrue those daily page counts!

G. Allen Cook

#5. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.

Charles Duhigg

#6. I've learned ... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

Andy Rooney

#7. I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period.

Donald McKay

#8. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#9. How much do you know about noctambulism - in other words, sleepwalking?" "I know that people can walk in their sleep. Talk in their sleep. Eat, get dressed and even go out and drive a car in their sleep.

Jo Nesbo

#10. Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

Phyllis McGinley

#11. I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

Celia Rivenbark

#12. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#13. 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

#14. I eat words for breakfast, almost savagely. Webster and Dictionary are mad at me.

Delano Johnson

#15. But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

John Connolly

#16. Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.

Jack LaLanne

#17. Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. I still have goals. Seeing those doubters out there, it's gonna be funny seeing them eat their words.

Derrick Rose

#19. The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

Norman Lamont

#20. Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.

R. Lewis

#21. 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

#22. I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.

Sophy Burnham

#23. Ser Tomaso," she said. "It is very likely we will all die."
"Or worse," said Brown, the first words he'd said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face.
"Perhaps," he said. "But we will eat well.

Miles Cameron

#24. I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules," said Dumbledore.
Ron opened his mouth in horror.
"Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words," Dumbledore went on, smiling.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Erasmus Darwin

#26. Would not feel me between your teeth. Come, take these two wicked girls, they are tender morsels for you, fat as young quails; for mercy's sake eat them!' The bear took no heed of his words, but gave the wicked creature a single blow with his paw, and he did not move again. The girls had run away,

Jacob Grimm

#27. 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

#28. Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

Ani DiFranco

#29. 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

#30. The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.

Rachael Ray

#31. Haydn snorts. "Only gullible, lovesick fools spout that mushy crap." Thank the stars that his tone is teasing, because I can sense Logan's patience waning.
"When you find the right girl, I'm so going to make you eat your words. And I'm going to thoroughly enjoy rubbing your nose in it.

Siobhan Davis

#32. Lord, I pray today that my words may be soft and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.

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