76 Utter A Word Quotes

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

A word once uttered can never be recalled. — Horace

A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown. — Bulgarian Proverbs

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. — Horace

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. — N. Scott Momaday

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. — Horace

To speak a true word is to transform the world. — Paulo Freire

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

One word spoken in anger may spoil an entire life — Greek Proverbs

Words are the voice of the heart. — Confucius

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. — John Tillotson

A word does not start as a word – it is an end product which begins as an impulse, stimulated by attitude and behaviour which dictates the need for expression. — Peter Brook

Realize the power of your words, both cruel and kind. Then speak. — Joe Gatto

Short Utter A Word Quotes

  • A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can’t catch it. — Russian Proverbs
  • The unspoken word never does harm. — Lajos Kossuth
  • YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY — Florence Scovel Shinn
  • A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. — Jewish Proverbs
  • When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. — Arabic Proverbs
  • One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. — James Earl Jones

Utter A Word Image Quotes

Utter a word quote A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Is Utter A Word Quotes

Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated. — John Bevere

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor. — Vaclav Havel

Utter a word quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
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.

Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered. — Nelson Searcy

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. — John Climacus

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Utter a word quote Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day. — Taisen Deshimaru

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! — Rumi

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More Utter A Word Quotes

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said. — Alexander Hamilton

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work. — Carl Sagan

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. — Chloe Moretz

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. — Chloe Grace Moretz

It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word. — Erma Bombeck

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. — Bertrand Russell

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist. — George Macdonald

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page. — Sayings

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit. — Peter O'Toole

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words. — Rabindranath Tagore

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. — Kahlil Gibran

I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. — Soseki Natsume

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course. — Gail Sheehy

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. — Jodi Picoult

One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single word, the long and short of him will be known.' — Takeda Nobushige

Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence. — W. S. Merwin

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. — Bahá'u'lláh

Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water. Just about every word they utter on this subject is a falsehood calculated to deceive, or - in plain English - a lie. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse. — Bruce Barton

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. — Walt Whitman

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when it is uttered. For suicide is a taboo subject that stigmatizes not only the victim but the survivors as well. — Earl A Grollman

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them. — Baltasar Gracian

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence. — Benjamin Disraeli

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. — Plutarch

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you. — Libba Bray

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul. — Edmond Jabes

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him. — Ole Hallesby

Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch! — Georgette Heyer

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