Our Words Quotes - Page 3

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

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.

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.

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

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.

Every time we give our word, it counts. For the most part, people give their word entirely too often. Our word is a precious commodity and should be treated as such.

The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

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.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.