Quotes About Words Spoken

#1. Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

Frederick Buechner

#2. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#3. From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

Justina Chen

#4. Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Robert MacNeil

#5. Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#6. The sword wound heals in time, but the wound of words spoken out of anger never do

N. Davis

#7. Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]

Alexander Graham Bell

#8. How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

A.E. Samaan

#10. Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

William Shakespeare

#11. We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.

Anne Rice

#13. 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

#14. In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

Plutarch

#15. But words spoken can never be taken back. They can only be measured for and judged on the strength of their sincerity and need.

Terry Brooks

#16. 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

#17. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. Wise man can make people hear
more lessons than words spoken.

Toba Beta

#19. Just as electricity is unseen, but by the flip of the switch, lights turn on, so also by the words spoken in prayer, miracles manifest.

Tiffany Domena

#20. Any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

Deborah Tannen

#21. The amount of words spoken does not determine the quality of the prayer

Sunday Adelaja

#22. The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Don DeLillo

#23. Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#24. Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your character will tell your side without any words spoken. Do your best to vibrate high even in the midst of a shit storm.

Sanjo Jendayi

#25. Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

Seal

#26. I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.

Deval Patrick

#27. Negative words spoken into our lives are like a vine, slowly creeping in, growing, expanding and entangling us until they're finally able to choke the life and dreams out.

Vonae Deyshawn

#28. a few words spoken beneath the moon, love
may be, but I write your name
in the celestial dust that lingers
in the air, above
the veilchenblau roses, callow
and pale

John Daniel Thieme

#29. That's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

David Levithan

#30. I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ted Shawn

#31. All it takes is a tradition of demeaning, critical words from the right person. All it takes is nothing from the right person. No interest in you, no words spoken to you, no love. If you are treated as if you do not exist, you will feel shame.

Edward T. Welch

#32. 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

#33. Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Alan Lightman

#34. The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall', a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Mitt Romney

#35. 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

#36. Who Dares Wins...
I Dared...

Words spoken by many, but realised by few..

Ashton E. Silver

#37. He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words exist in the mind first and then go to the voice and sit temporarily inside ears, and if words are conveyed through sign language, they exist in the motion of hands.

Rita Leganski

#38. Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended.
-Bound

Donna Jo Napoli

#39. The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Toba Beta

#40. It was amazing how the right words spoken by a man could soothe insecurities.

Karen Witemeyer

#41. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?

Tan Twan Eng

#42. The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

Ekamdeep Singh

#43. she lived her life with her fingers in her ears, as though the truth would not exist if she never heard the words spoken aloud.

Allen Eskens

#44. Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.

Laozi

#45. It broke over him, a frothing, churning sea a images and sound, so vivid he had to close his eyes against it and hold his breath. Faces long dead; words spoken and heard; professions of love and regret and hate; episodes of intimacy as painful to recall as those characterised by violence.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#46. My soul crave to walk with the Creator.
My spirit sought to know the will of the Creator.
My mind seek to mediate on the Holy words spoken by the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#47. Words spoken in haste cannot be taken back. And while they may be forgiven, the memories will linger to warn the heart of future encounters.

Tracie Peterson

#48. 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

#49. Words spoken today that are not needed now must be kept till they will be needed

Sunday Adelaja

#50. Unfortunately, the people who have the greatest influence in our lives rarely understand the power of their words to shape who we become. They never fully understand that what informs us forms us. Words spoken into a soul are like the hands of a potter pressed against wet clay.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#51. What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

Steven Weber

#52. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Shannon L. Alder

#53. We held each other the entire night, no words spoken but the still, silent night uttered so much.

Fisher Amelie

#54. WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

Christopher Locke

#55. For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Paul Weyrich

#56. We often think of prayer as nothing more than words spoken to God, but maybe it's more than that. Prayer is not a monologue; it's a dialogue. We speak to God with everything from words to groans to thoughts. And God speaks to us through dreams, desires, promptings, impressions, and ideas.

Mark Batterson

#57. Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Sam Levenson

#58. The value of prayers and affirmations are rooted not in the lyrical content of said language, but rather in the vibratory and numerical value of the words spoken.

Yuya T. Assaan-ANU

#59. The Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#60. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.

Jane Austen

#61. I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

Richard Salter Storrs

#62. It was merely a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not distinguishable individually but restoring confidence by the fact of being spoken.

George Orwell

#63. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#64. The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#65. Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

Peter Gould

#66. Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

Joanna Baillie

#67. How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?

John Allen Paulos

#68. I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.

Simon McBurney

#69. Show me a transcript of the words you've spoken, typed, or texted in the course of a day, an account of your doings, and a record of your transactions, and I'll show you your religion.

David Dark

#70. When words, half love, all tenderness,
Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken.

The Bronte Sisters

#71. Her smile and voice suggested the kind of excitement that comes when the first words in a long, silent relationship are spoken at last - a subtle excitement secretly incorporating into this one moment everything that has happened until now.

Thomas Mann

#72. To Punpun, the seemingly unmeaningful words, "See ya," spoken by Sachi were magical words that transformed the next day into a day worth living.

Inio Asano

#73. His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.

Karin Slaughter

#74. 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

#75. Boy," said Druss, his eyes cold, "think well about this venture. For make no mistake, you cannot
stand before me and live. No man ever has." The words were spoken softly, yet no one disbelieved the
old man.

David Gemmell

#76. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

Elie Wiesel

#77. I wish not to tell you how I feel,
I choose silence so that you leave,
Kiss me goodbye and set me free...

Sanhita Baruah

#78. I love you," she said softly for the first time. It shocked her to realize she had never spoken the words until now.

Kirsten Beyer

#79. Poets are Prisoners
8-29-2015
Poets are prisoners
Practitioners, commissioners &
conditioners of the spoken word
Caged by their own minds
Words are shackles

Debbie Tosun Kilday

#80. Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.

Haruki Murakami

#81. It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
[Lat., Delere licebit
Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

Horace

#82. I am spoken to not in words, which come to me quaint and veiled, but in signs, in conformations of face and hands, in postures of shoulders and feet, in nuances of tune and tone, in gaps and absences whose grammar has never been recorded.

J.M. Coetzee

#83. To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

Jessamyn West

#84. Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other words, I was kind of a catch. And I knew this was true. As long as you couldn't see me. If you saw me, you'd think I was the sea cow that had swallowed your catch.

Victor LaValle

#85. The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought

Albert Einstein

#86. They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

Joseph Conrad

#87. There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

Randeep Hooda

#88. Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Charles Darwin

#89. Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

Edmund Morgan

#90. Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief.

Charles Capps

#91. Art like that doesn't need words. That painting tells you something by pulling you into it and pushing you out and you know what it's saying without words being spoken.

Cath Crowley

#92. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood

#93. Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

Jane Kang

#94. The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#95. Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense.

Meredith Duran

#96. I want you to think about this for a minute. What would you rather have? Words that can be spoken lightly and then taken back so easily, would you rather actions?

Katie Ashley

#97. I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.

John Steinbeck

#98. Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren't spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.

David Powning

#99. A gentle, sincere touch has as much healing power as mighty spoken words. - Steven Thompson

Gary Chapman

#100. It shall greatly help ye to understand the Scriptures if thou mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goeth before and what followeth after.

Miles Coverdale