quotes about Our Words
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
-- Adrienne Rich -
Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.
-- Alistair Begg -
Sharing words with someone you have never met is like observing a shadow, without seeing the whole person; the place where my shadow touches theirs, is the place where our words meet, and it is in that place where wonderful exchanges can take place.
-- Allison Mackie -
The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.
-- Amit Ray -
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It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
-- Anne Rice -
And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full we are afraid of indigestion when our stomachs are empty we are afraid we may never eat again when we are loved we are afraid love will vanish when we are alone we are afraid love will never return and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive
-- Audre Lorde -
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
-- Bernie Siegel -
If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
-- Betty Eadie -
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The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
-- Billy GrahamSource : Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.435, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.
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Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
-- Cesare Pavese -
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We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.
-- Chip Ingram -
Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.
-- Chris PrentissSource : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.
-- David AbramSource : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.56, Vintage
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Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.
-- David Levithan -
But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.
-- Declan Donnellan -
You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.
-- DMX -
Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
-- E. Haldeman-Julius -
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'
-- Eknath Easwaran -
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
-- Freya Stark -
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Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.
-- George W. Bush -
If our words are not consistent with our actions, they will never be heard above the thunder of our deeds.
-- H. Burke PetersonSource : H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
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We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
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If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
-- James Lee Burke -
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We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
-- Jane Fonda -
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
-- Jane Roberts -
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
-- Jimmy Savile -
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Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
-- Joyce Meyer -
One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.
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Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage
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Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
-- Louie Giglio -
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When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
-- Malcolm De Chazal -
Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
-- Marcel Proust -
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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
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We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the life we wish to lead.
-- Marlo MorganSource : Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople
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Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
-- Melina Marchetta -
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And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
-- Michael C. Burgess -
Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.
-- Michael Hyatt -
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
-- Niels Bohr -
Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, most people give it entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such....
-- Peter McWilliams -
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Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.
-- Plato -
It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
-- Pope Francis -
Let's discipline ourselves so that our words are few and full.
-- Richard J. Foster -
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
-- Richard M. NixonSource : Inaugural Address, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 20, 1969.
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Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.
-- Sami YusufSource : FaceBook post by Sami Yusuf from Feb 16, 2012
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I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
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Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.
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We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.
-- Thomas Sankara -
We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.
-- Violette Leduc -
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
-- Wilkie CollinsSource : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.45, e-artnow sro
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Our words must seem to be inevitable.
-- William Butler Yeats -
Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.
-- William Cobbett -
European carmakers pledged to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 percent from 1995 to 2008. We kept our word and reduced the value even more. This is not the result of short-term gimmickry. We decided years ago to develop the relevant models and engines, otherwise we wouldn't be able to offer them today.
-- Norbert Reithofer