Our Words Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Way, Disaster, Sentences

  "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

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• Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

  Lisa See

  Writing, Ungrateful, Feelings

  Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”, p.197, A&C Black

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• 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

  Education, Thinking, Way

  Song: Angel-Dmx, Album: ...And Then There Was X

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• Our words must seem to be inevitable.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Inevitable, Seems

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “Letters”

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• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  Yehuda Berg

  War, Color, Practice

  "The Power of Words" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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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

  Believe, Important, Today

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• True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.

  Sue Thoele

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

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• Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!

  Gianna Beretta Molla

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Goal, Personality

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• 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

  Shadow, Wonderful, Mets

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

  George W. Bush

  People, Important, Diplomacy

  "Raw Data: Text of Bush Interview". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• 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

  Men, Credit, Habit

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• Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, World, Waste

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• [T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Greek, Age

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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

  Michael Hyatt

  Impact

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• 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

  People, Different, Substance

  Marcel Proust, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, Dennis Joseph Enright (1996). “In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove”, Vintage Classics

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• If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

  Betty Eadie

  Silence, Negative, Understood

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

  Cesare Pavese

  Fun, Might, Disheartened

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

  Freya Stark

  Believe, Long, Destruction

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• Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Attitude, Heart, Soul

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• When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to receive. God does not change and nature's laws are absolute and impartial. Thus, prayer has the potential for changing us. It connects us with God's spirit, and it is the key to His kingdom. Whatever your religious persuasion, it's a good thing to start every day with prayer.

  Donna Fargo

  Religious, Prayer, Law

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• The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.

  Simon Tam

  Memories, War, Catalyst For Change

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• 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

  Years, Able, Today

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• Behavior influences consciousness. Right behavior means right consciousness. Our attitude here and now influences the entire environment: our words, actions, ways of holding and moving ourselves, they all influence what happens around us and inside us. The actions of every instant, every day, must be right...Every gesture is important. How we eat, how we put on our clothes, how we wash ourselves, how we go to the toilet, how we put our things away, how we act with other people, family, wife, work - how we are: totally, in every single gesture.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Attitude, Moving, Mean

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• One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Needs, Our Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

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