Weigh Your Words Quotes

#1. Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

Lucius Accius

#2. Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. He despised the words leaving his mouth, hating the way they made him feel. Exposed. Open. By a girl who didn't weigh more than his cock. A girl who stared at him with eyes of fire, who pushed buttons he didn't know he had, and had wormed her way inside a part of him that should be closed.

Alessandra Torre

#4. Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters had gone through at least one draft, he said, mostly to remove unnecessary insults. Only necessary ones remained.

Michael Finkel

#5. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.

Megan Miranda

#6. When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.

R.A. Torrey

#7. Words are important to me. I listen to each one, weigh and measure it. If I cannot trust your words, how can I trust you?

Julie Klassen

#8. Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Ben Jonson

#9. You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

Jane Austen

#11. Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."

Thomas Gambino

#12. Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare

#13. The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Lee Bolman

#14. Discouraging words should not weigh you down instead they should challenge you

Sunday Adelaja

#15. What you see is more important than what you know.

Giovanni Guidetti

#16. When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#17. I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

Tad Williams

#18. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

Black Elk

#19. Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

Harold Holzer

#20. I can't pray or weigh my words right; doomsday
is here my friend, but you're immune. We suffer
for you. I'm weaving crowns of sonnets, dreads;
a souvenir so you'll never forget your friends.

Jalina Mhyana

#21. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

#22. Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em.

Elizabeth Gaskell