I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different. Votes: 4 Joe Teti
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Votes: 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids. Votes: 1 Brad Pitt
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. Votes: 4 George Washington
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. Votes: 1 Diane Watson
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words. Votes: 1 Steve-O
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. Votes: 1 Diane Watson
Oh Lord, know yourself, know your worth, nigga My actions been louder than my words, nigga. Votes: 2 Drake
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. Votes: 3 Elizabeth Gilbert
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. Votes: 1 Gore Vidal
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience. Votes: 3 Walter Darby Bannard
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Votes: 1 Robert Metcalfe
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. Votes: 3 Arundhati Roy
Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. Votes: 3 Monte Irvin
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf. Votes: 2 Peter Dinklage
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. Votes: 6 Ann Landers
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Votes: 5 Bryan Callen
There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt. Votes: 2 Tillie Olsen
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Votes: 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Novels by British writers are among my favorites because our family has enjoyed travel in England and because they are written with an economy of words as if they were written with a pen instead of a computer. Penelope Fitzgerald is a favorite. Votes: 4 Beverly Cleary
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. Votes: 5 George Sand
The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. Votes: 3 Ellen G. White
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. Votes: 3 Winston Churchill
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. Votes: 3 Thurston Moore
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Votes: 1 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party Votes: 3 Tupac Shakur
I hate false words, and seek with care, difficulty, and moroseness, those that fit the thing. Votes: 3 Walter Savage Landor
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee. He will not fail thee, till thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. Votes: 2 David
The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life. Votes: 3 Hill Harper
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. Votes: 3 Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger. Votes: 3 Ithiel de Sola Pool
They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. Votes: 3 Raymond Floyd
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. Votes: 3 Washington Gladden
The Prince, charmed with these words, and much more with the manner in which they were spoken, knew not how to show his joy and gratitude; he assured her that he loved her better than he did himself. Votes: 1 Charles Perrault
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Votes: 2 Herman Melville
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Votes: 2 Solomon
I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified. Votes: 1 Rosie O'Donnell
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. Votes: 1 Gunter Grass
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad. Votes: 1 Eric Idle
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures. Votes: 1 John Shelby Spong
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be. Votes: 3 Robert Dallek
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. Votes: 2 James Marsh
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. Votes: 1 Eleanor Catton
Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve. Votes: 3 Robert Cheeke
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation. Votes: 3 Nhat Hanh
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Votes: 4 Blaise Pascal
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Votes: 2 Henry David Thoreau
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Votes: 5 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself. Votes: 5 An Na
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. Votes: 1 Jonathan Swift
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life. Votes: 1 Zig Ziglar
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. Votes: 1 Jean Rostand
Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! Votes: 1 Stephen Sondheim
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.' Votes: 4 William E. Geist
As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that it is possible to sit in a crowded railway carriage laboriously spelling out quite long words in full, and using an enormous amount of punctuation, without anyone being aware of how outrageously subversive I am being. Votes: 2 Lynne Truss
Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past." Votes: 3 Greg Iles
My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now! Votes: 3 Vinny Guadagnino
Like Humpty Dumpty, we can make words mean anything we want them to mean. Votes: 4 Herbert A. Simon
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Votes: 7 Philip K. Dick
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words. Votes: 3 Ann Hood
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. Votes: 2 Philip K. Dick
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination. Votes: 1 Joshua Foer
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. Votes: 3 Napoleon Hill
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams Votes: 3 Trudi Canavan
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. Votes: 2 Herbert Spencer
Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. Votes: 4 Zell Miller
I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation. Votes: 1 Lorrie Fair
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'. Votes: 1 David Tang
I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them. Votes: 4 Jerry Lewis
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. Votes: 1 Friedrich Nietzsche
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. Votes: 2 Ernest Hemingway
Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one. Votes: 3 Wim Wenders
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept. Votes: 3 Lucille Clifton
I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out. Votes: 2 Jordana Brewster
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.' Votes: 3 James Surowiecki
Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words. Votes: 3 Jason Mraz
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. Votes: 6 Caroline Kennedy
Four Very Powerful Words to say to your child: I Believe in you! Votes: 4 Kevin Heath
I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up. Votes: 2 Tom Lehrer
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. Votes: 1 Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page. Votes: 1 Christopher Guest
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness. Votes: 5 William Brewster
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Votes: 4 Winston Churchill
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. Votes: 1 Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. Votes: 2 Lin Yutang
You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing. Votes: 1 John Niven
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. Votes: 1 Simon Sinek
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. Votes: 3 Ellen G. White
I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me. Votes: 1 Adelaide Kane
I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me. Votes: 1 Adelaide Kane
We can't say what enlightenment is, we can't say what it isn't, because these are words and words have nothing to do with reality. Votes: 3 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can! Votes: 5 Denis Waitley
...Truthfulness itself is almost medicinal, even when it's served without advice or insight. Just hearing true words spoken out loud provides relief. Votes: 1 Augusten Burroughs
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. Votes: 4 Johnny Cash
It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word. Votes: 7 Elizabeth Scott
I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear. Votes: 1 Robert Krulwich
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. Votes: 1 Wislawa Szymborska
When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up. Votes: 3 Allen Lacy
I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words. Votes: 3 Hutch Harris
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use. Votes: 1 Jamey Johnson
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage. Votes: 1 Gunter Grass
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Votes: 1 Carol Shields
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing. Votes: 1 Trick Daddy
Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight. Votes: 1 Star Jones
Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen... or not. Votes: 2 Sophia Amoruso
Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words. Votes: 4 Leo Buscaglia
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use. Votes: 1 Jamey Johnson
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. Votes: 3 Wislawa Szymborska
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. Votes: 4 Bertrand Russell
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds. Votes: 1 Kate Smith
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. Votes: 1 Yehuda Berg
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything. Votes: 1 Ted Nugent
The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words. Votes: 3 Jose Saramago
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Votes: 3 Helen Dunmore
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! Votes: 3 Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Votes: 5 Robert Frost
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account. Votes: 4 J. C. Ryle
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small. Votes: 3 Johann Kaspar Lavater
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. Votes: 1 Charlie Chaplin
Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself. Votes: 4 Mary J. Blige
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Votes: 4 C. S. Lewis
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. Votes: 1 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play. Votes: 1 Rutina Wesley
Be aware of things you say because words have power. When you speak truth. It's Beautiful. And, that beauty illuminates! Votes: 3 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects. Votes: 2 Blaise Pascal
Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done. Votes: 4 Theodore Epp
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Votes: 3 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Votes: 1 Henri Nouwen
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. Votes: 5 Ernest Gaines
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.' Votes: 1 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.' Votes: 4 Randy Pausch
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. Votes: 4 Louis Nizer
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. Votes: 4 George Matthew Adams
It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really. Votes: 4 Miriam Toews
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. Votes: 1 Ezra Taft Benson
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. Votes: 5 Malcolm X
The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities. Votes: 4 Joan Didion
There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt. Votes: 3 Tillie Olsen
Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film. Votes: 1 Shahid Kapoor
The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never. Votes: 3 Pat Williams
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. Votes: 3 Richard M. Nixon
Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids. Votes: 1 Brad Pitt