Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself. — Mary J. Blige
Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them. — Matthew Henry
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause. — Victor Hugo
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. — C. S. Lewis
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender. — Marlene Dietrich
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie. — Juvenal
Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to. — Justin Bieber
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. — Plato
Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back. — Willie Nelson
Good words do not last long unless they amount to something. — Chief Joseph
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. — Edouard Manet
One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life — Greek Proverbs
Big words seldom accompany good deeds. — Danish proverb
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind. — Laurie R. King
Top 10 Mean Words Quotes
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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. — Philip K. Dick
If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.' — John F. MacArthur
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine — Marie Antoinette
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. — Blaise Pascal
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive. — Krystal
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Don't Say Mean Words Quotes
When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out. Don't get startled; don't get frustrated. If you can say the word 'good,' guess what? It means you're still alive. It means you're still breathing. — Jocko Willink
You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikós", meaning "able to choose" - which pretty much says it all, don't you think? — Pat Condell
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. — Anita Baker
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that! — Sonia Rykiel
Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless. — Jonathan Maberry
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. — Lillian Hellman
When written in Chinese the word "Crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out. — Neil Gaiman
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. — C. S. Lewis
It's better when you don't understand the words in music. Because when you don't understand the words, you have to listen to what somebody means, not what they're saying. And if they mean it. — Ian Brennan
I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law. — Ronee Blakley
Your Words Mean Nothing Quotes
There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way. — Paulo Coelho
Your value is nothing if you cannot honor your word. If you do not mean what you say, you are the most mean person on the Earth. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes? — Galileo Galilei
A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
"I'm not going to lose you, Kaylee. No matter what I have to do, or whom I have to fight. Even if that means quashing your vexing tendencies toward self-sacrifice."
"Did you just say 'vexing'?" Nash asked.
Tod scowled. "Nothing else seemed to fit. I stand by my word choice." — Rachel Vincent
Words Don't Mean Anything Quotes
I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole. — Julia Child
A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her. — Colleen Hoover
I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job. — Matt Smith
Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. — Peter Singer
I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me. — Tom Brady
It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that. — Indira Gandhi
They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter. — Dana Reinhardt
In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything. — Mod Sun
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use. — Frederick Lenz
You're my brother." "Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments. — Cassandra Clare
Alice In Wonderland Quotes
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo. — Truman Capote
You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. — Anne Hathaway
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it? — Jeanette Winterson
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll
Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. — Lewis Carroll
The hurrier I go, the behinder I get. — Lewis Carroll
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll
In Alice in Wonderland one had to run fast to stand still, in the stock markets, one who stands still can really make money fast. — Thomas Phelps
Words Mean Something Quotes
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records. — Holly Johnson
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength. — Kyuzo Mifune
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods. — Edward Hirsch
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. — Olivia Munn
Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.' — Wayne Shorter
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write. — Hugo Black
In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist. — Cecil Taylor
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. — Billy Graham
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. — C. S. Lewis
Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, ‘I love you’ but it means nothing more to him than if he said, ‘I’ll have a cup of coffee. — Robert D. Hare
One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . . — George Leigh Mallory
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. — N. Scott Momaday
Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning. — Pope Gregory XVI
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more. — Emile Zola
Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness. — Ray Comfort
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing. — Ernest Gaines
Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing. — Jim Rohn
Meanings Of Words Quotes
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Just what is meant by 'your word?' It means your conscious intention, your conscious direction, your conscious faith and acceptance that, because of what you are doing, the Power of Spirit will flow through your word in the direction you give It. — Ernest Holmes
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. — Mas Oyama
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like. — Don Delillo
In other words, it’s precisely the fact that I could have chosen a different, and perhaps equally valuable way to spend this afternoon that bestowed meaning on the choice I did make. And the same applies, of course, to an entire lifetime. — Oliver Burkeman
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. — Emil Brunner
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. — Lydia M. Child
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension. — Jacques Brel
Americans of good-will, the nice decent church people, the well-meaning liberals, the good hearted souls who themselves wouldn't lynch anyone, must begin to realize that they have to be more than passively good-hearted, more than church goingly Christian, and much more than word-of-mouth in the liberalism. — Langston Hughes
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492.... Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio," from the Italian in dio, meaning "in God." — Russell Means
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. — Charles Baudelaire
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. — Ray Charles
Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures. — Robin Williams
I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough — Mos Def
In plain words, pricing this way means you are providing a service at just above what it costs for you to stay above water. We are not trying to stay barely above water. We are trying to make egregious amounts of money that will have your relatives asking if what you are doing is legal. Again, we are not trying to get the most customers. We are trying to make the most money. — Alex Hormozi
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. — Maurice Strong
I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved. — Emmanuel Levinas
The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love. — Amy Carmichael
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri
Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task. — Marcus Aurelius
So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual. — Howard G. Hendricks
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. — Henri Nouwen
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt — Alan Watts
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