Top 100 Quotes About Words You Speak
#1. The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them. No one does the right thing out of fear. If you ever utter the words, 'We've always done it that way,' I urge you to wash out your mouth with soap.
Anna Quindlen
#2. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears.
Douglas Adams
#3. Speak to me ... be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize! ... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water ... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
#4. Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.
Steven Pinker
#5. God will speak to you - not that you will hear audible words in your ears, but words that you will clearly understand in your heart.
Bert Ghezzi
#6. Do you only speak in questions?"
"Do you only speak in SAT words?
Megan Erickson
#7. Just as you and I speak by forming words, the natural, private discourse of the Sanza twins appears to consist entirely of farts and savage beatings. What
Scott Lynch
#8. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.
Elbert Hubbard
#9. 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
#11. People say actions speak louder than words, but sometimes it's the words that hurt the most. Actions are easy to ignore, but words hit you right where it hurts.
Sudeep Nagarkar
#12. I'm a sliver-thin light, diamond sharp, that can slip through gaps in the world we know. I will come into your dreams and speak soft words when you think of me. There is no happy ever after - but there is an afterwards.
This isn't our ending.
Rosamund Lupton
#13. It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
Karen Marie Moning
#15. Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.
Robert G. Allen
#16. The words I speak to these chairs
must be silencing.
It has stunned them
into a profound emptiness.
No creaking from the gallery
no James Joyce here, nor Malory
An unknown author
in a very large chain
can't you hear me rattling?
B.J. Ward
#17. 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
#18. As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
Hillary Clinton
#19. Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.
David Gemmell
#20. If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
Chogyam Trungpa
#21. One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.
Molly Friedenfeld
#22. Twitch doesn't say much. He doesn't need to. You know that saying actions speak louder than words? His actions are speaking for him. And I like what they're saying. I wonder if he'll let me keep him.
Belle Aurora
#23. When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe
#24. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Sam Levenson
#25. You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books
Geoffrey Dutton
#26. 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
#27. Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#29. I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.
Chloe Thurlow
#30. When you people have a set up joke and the joke is set up straight and the words are just well written, I always say "C'mon, humans don't speak that way."
Will Gluck
#32. I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?
Gerard Way
#33. Be in the spirit of Truth and any words you speak are in alignment with that spirit.
Mooji
#34. You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.
Paul Ekman
#35. Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?'
I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. 'What irony?' I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. 'That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
John Boyne
#36. To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.
Fred D'Aguiar
#37. One should never believe the words I speak.
Kenya Wright
#38. With our bodies we make statements before we speak, our presentation is a language spoken without words. You - and only you - get to decide what it is you're trying to say.
Hannah Hart
#40. Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.
Sanjo Jendayi
#41. It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
Carlos Wallace
#42. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#43. If you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
Phyllis Bottome
#44. Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
Paul Wellstone
#45. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.
Adriana Locke
#46. But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.
Eric Ludy
#47. All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.
Gautama Buddha
#48. There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
Yasmin Mogahed
#49. If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis
Richard Rohr
#50. If everything you say gets laughed at ...
then you become afraid of everyone ...
and are no longer able to speak ...
even knowing all that does is bother everyone ...
Your heart ...
... shuts down ...
And your words die ...
Natsuki Takaya
#51. If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
I love you.
Spike Milligan
#52. The words you speak reveal the heart you have.
Todd Stocker
#53. Clothing is a wrapper, it means nothing. Your worth is measured by your actions and the words you speak.
Bridget Blackwood
#54. All the words thrown on to others will eventually fall on you, so speak such pure words so that pure words will indeed fall on you.
Dada Bhagwan
#55. It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.
John Assaraf
#56. The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.
Joel Osteen
#57. Have faith. The Lord can magnify the words you speak and make them mighty. God doesn't ask you to convert but rather to open your mouths.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#58. If you don't speak the right things, then hush! If you don't hush, then speak the right things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.
Tulsidas
#61. You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
Tito Colliander
#62. Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#63. Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.
Peter Gould
#64. Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?
Justina Chen
#65. Words once uttered, cannot be buttered, so season them all before you speak
Carrie King
#66. You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve
#67. The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#68. You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.
Christian D. Larson
#69. Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn
#70. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
Colleen Hoover
#71. If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
#72. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#74. Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!
Lewis Carroll
#75. What silence? I hear every word you write, every word you speak with your incredible face as if you'd spoken the words out a loud. You were meant to be with me, Scotlyn. Not him.
Tess Oliver
#76. Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act. Actions speak louder than words. Don't complain about things, change things.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.
George Carlin
#78. Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#79. The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom too tall Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#80. You don't have to speak. Words fade," she whispered. "I know that better than anyone. Words are forgotten; they are regretted.Unnecessary. I know.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#82. Is there anyone nearby you can speak to without words?"
"I don't know. I only know that there are those whose minds I can speak with that, when I show them how, speak back to my mind as well.
Tom Larcombe
#83. In order to understand God, you have to learn to listen. You're thoughts talk very loudly all the time. But God is very, very, very quiet. God doesn't speak through words or thoughts. God doesn't speak. God is silent.
Frederick Lenz
#84. I know I had that punch comin' to me. I owed you one. No hard feelings, sugar."
"Speak for yourself." Pia's words were coated in frost. "I've all kinds of hard feelings going on over here.
Thea Harrison
#85. Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.
T.F. Hodge
#86. You speak good words, child, but sometimes what lies within is much darker. The line between justice and revenge is then. Justice is order; revenge is chaos. If revenge is your innermost desire, you will be destroyed upon entering into the hall
Amira Aly
#87. When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
Anthony De Mello
#88. Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Beth Kephart
#89. No counsel have I to give to those that despair. Yet counsel I could give, and words I could speak to you. Will you hear them? They
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together
it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now
in a way."
"Yes, in a way
that's how I always say things: in a way.
Andre Aciman
#91. Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
Dale Carnegie
#92. You have to have a good vocabulary to do magic. And you have to be able to think on your feet. And be brave enough to speak up. And have an ear for a solid turn of phrase. And you have to actually understand what you're saying - how the words translate into magic.
Rainbow Rowell
#93. Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Terry Pratchett
#95. Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
Louise Hay
#96. One secret to wisdom:
think more, speak less.
If you let your words be few,
your troubles will not be many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#97. To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.
Carine Roitfeld
#98. The five most important words a leader can speak are - 'I am proud of you'
The four most important are - 'What is your opinion?'
The three most important are - 'If you please'
The two most important are - 'Thank You'
And the most important single word of all is - 'You'
Denis Waitley
#99. Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower of Babel, to speak always in riddles and never yet to comprehend.
Ned Hayes
#100. The dead don't care what you say, but maybe the words you speak at a graveside aren't for the dead at all. Maybe those words are for the living.
Scott Sigler
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