Words Quotes - page 2

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa)
Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. (Ambrose Bierce)
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
Emil Cioran
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy
It's only words... unless they're true.
David Mamet
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson II
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Václav Havel
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life. (George Steiner)
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
To me, the body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne