Quotes about Words
Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.
- David O. McKay
Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
- Nicky Gumbel
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
- Brian Tracy
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
- Elie Wiesel
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
- Elie Wiesel
The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day."
- Elie Wiesel
Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.
- Elizabeth George
Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.
- Mark McKinnon
What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.
- Tim LaHaye
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
- Vance Havner
Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
- Victor Hugo