Quotes about Words
All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.
- Charles Spurgeon
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
- Walt Whitman
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
- Joyce Meyer
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- Henri Nouwen
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- Robert Frost
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
- Henri Nouwen
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
- Jennifer Lopez
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
- Saint Jerome
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'
- Saint Jerome
I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Samuel Johnson
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- Samuel Johnson