Words Have Weight Quotes

#1. Words have weight.

Stephen King

#2. Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Philippa Gregory

#3. Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.

Philip Pullman

#5. But even Carlin's words had no weight when fury washed over Kelsea; it was a tide that cleared all obstacles.

Erika Johansen

#6. A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.

Mark Barnes

#7. I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important.

Kelley York

#8. Words, too, have genuine substance
mass and weight and specific gravity.

Tim O'Brien

#9. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.

Leonora Carrington

#10. I am young, and, therefor, I know my words only carry a certain weight in the world, but I do know enough to realize you cannot control the actions of others. You can only control what you do with yourself afterward.

Renee Ahdieh

#11. Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Helen Dunmore

#12. Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over.

Maggi Richard

#13. Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate

Richard Flanagan

#14. The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

Hari Kondabolu

#15. I will go where I will go
And I will jettison all dead weight
And I will use these words for kindling
And I will sleep by the garden gate.

John Darnielle

#16. When you put pain in perspective" - she pauses to find the right words to articulate the sentiment - "it isn't that we experience it in the moment. It's that we are always going to have it, always going to carry it with us. It's the weight we carry with aging.

Paul Michael Peters

#17. He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.

Anthony Powell

#18. Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

Arthur Miller

#19. The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher's diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don't cheat.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Samuel Smiles

#21. You've asked enough questions about evil. But you never asked once about love."
So I asked him to tell me about it, but of course his definition lay beyond words. He just went on sitting with me in the dark and taking the weight of my pain.

Susan Howatch

#22. First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

Milan Kundera

#23. It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#24. The weight of your words is more important than the volume of your voice!

Manprit Kaur

#25. The 'words' of Augustine, Origen, Clement of Alexandria, St. John of Damascus, St. Thomas Aquinas, et al, may not have carried the weight of Canon, however they were neither paper-like nor mere 'pellets'."

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#26. It takes about four days of virtuous living to create a little weight loss. That also happens to be the time required to get used to eating less. In other words, if you can get past day three of a fitness regimen, things improve.

Martha Beck

#27. Actions speak louder than words, but sometimes words has more weight

Anonymous

#28. The weight of words.
Words can be fearsome weapons, tools or means powerful!

Joko Ono

#29. I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#30. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

Douglas Adams

#31. To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.

Andre Maurois

#32. A song is a lot of things. But, first of all, a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight, makes then somehow easier to say, and it helps them to be remembered.

Richard Rodgers

#33. His words remind me of the strange whispers that have accompanied my illusions - something dark and vengeful, tempting and powerful. A weight presses on my chest. I am afraid. Intrigued.

Marie Lu

#34. There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have power. But even thinking about them is sometimes enough to make the air in a room heavy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#35. How can something that doesn't have a form, doesn'r have a definition, doesn't have words-how can it have such weight? And yet, there's the need to swim.

David Levithan

#36. I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.

Deyth Banger

#37. I love you. Those three words have a deeply embedded history. They come with a whole lifetime of laughter and tears. So when I say them, I hope you feel the weight of my words because they bear everything I hope. They bear everything that I am.

June Gray

#38. I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#39. When a liar uses words to convince someone to believe them it's like trying to swim with weight wrapped around your legs. It won't work. Eventually you'll tire out and sink.

Rachel Van Dyken

#40. When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

Shekhar Kapur

#41. But I could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like "love" or "devotion" or "infatuation" we're exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, but the layers imposed on them through the uses of others.

Alain De Botton

#42. If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Terry Pratchett

#43. The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

Leigh Bardugo

#44. Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way.

Jandy Nelson

#45. But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

Lewis H. Lapham

#46. Whoever has said these things is a fool." "Aye, but the words of a fool hold weight with other fools.

Samantha Holt

#47. Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.

Michelle Obama

#48. What is in the heart rolls off the tongue, the weight of your words can be as sharp as a sword or as light as a feather." 03/19/2016

Suzanne Pavlick

#49. As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#50. 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

#51. The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

Calvin Coolidge

#52. But now its too late,
And I am so broken,
I don't want to carry the weight,
Of the words unspoken ...

Rida Altaf

#53. Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back.
'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?

Rick Riordan

#54. The voice, for its part, has the peculiarity that when released it carries the weight of the body from which it has come; since that weight is erotic reality, lovers believe they can embrace words of love, they believe they can make them into a continuum of love that will last forever.

Cesar Aira

#55. Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

#56. You're beautiful," he said softly. Simple words. Heavy weight. "There's no reason for you to be jealous of her. You're everything she isn't, and I like it. A lot.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#57. Your words have more weight than most people's. You swing them wildly and you can hurt a lot of people,

Lauren Groff

#58. Even as those five words cross my mind, I'm not exactly certain what they mean, or how to begin to consider their full weight. So I say it again. I try it on. See how it fits. This is not my world. -

Blake Crouch

#59. Your woman is gone and your heart is heavy. Words will not lighten the weight, and what is written is written. But let it also be put down that I grieve with you. ~Hasan~

Roger Zelazny

#60. How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

Jules Renard

#61. She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

Stephanie Kallos

#62. Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Beth Kephart

#63. The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight"

Lori Gottlieb

#64. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Francis Bacon

#65. Oh... I just leave it...

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Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive.

Deyth Banger

#66. The weight of his words threatened to undo the tiny string that tied my heart together.

R.S. Grey