Our Words Quotes - Page 4

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.

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

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.

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

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.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.

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.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

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.

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

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.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.