Quotes About Words Once Spoken

#1. If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]

Karen Maitland

#2. What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

#3. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

Confucius

#4. Words, once spoken, are too fast to be caught.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#5. We've witnessed history in the making.

Maria Shriver

#6. During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#7. The problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#8. Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Anthony Trollope

#9. I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Jane Goodall

#11. We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

Reid Hoffman

#12. Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior.

Dean Koontz

#13. Once words are spoken they are out there in the universe to come to fruition.

Sheena Hutchinson

#14. Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think,
but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them
disappear

Alice Hoffman

#15. someone like him, is the island of exile where most teenagers go to wait until childhood becomes adulthood. What you need to see - what Rothstein finally saw, although it took him three books to do it - is that most of us become everyone.

Stephen King

#16. While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

Brad Thor

#17. Liza made a sudden decision. "I'll be your friend," she announced. she had trouble speaking the words but was glad once she had spoken them. She did not really want to be friends with an enormous rat of questionable sanity, but it seemed the right thing to say.

Lauren Oliver

#18. Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

Susan Kay

#19. I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

Josh Homme

#20. A kiss for luck, demoiselle?"
It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last.
Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

R.L. LaFevers

#21. Words are powerful and once spoken can never be erased.

Various

#22. Never give up! With every step you take in your journey, you are forming your dreams.

Dolls Bowman

#23. It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

Daniel Radcliffe

#24. The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Cormac McCarthy

#25. Speak the language of the person you want to become.

Adam Braun

#26. She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.
Words gave concepts power.
Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.

Mike A. Lancaster

#27. It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts ... yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

Stefanie Schneider

#28. For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

Agatha Christie

#29. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

#30. O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!

Peter Julian Eymard