Quotes about Words
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
- Victor Hugo
Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.
- David O. McKay
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
- Hildegard of Bingen
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.
- Martin Luther
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.
- Elton John
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
- John Milton
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
- Maya Angelou
Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
- Walter Brueggemann
The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.
- Joel Osteen
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
- Philip K. Dick
There is little use in preaching the love of God in words without showing the love of God in action.
- William Barclay