Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again. — Horace
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins
For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word. — Franz Kafka
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. — Jewish Proverbs
Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. — Pythagoras
O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre! — Peter Julian Eymard
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music. — Bruce Springsteen
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. — Jane Goodall
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. — Earl of Roscommon
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.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. — Menander
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves. — James Russell Lowell
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. — Confucius
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?" — Plutarch
Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly. — J. I. Packer
Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out.
There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact. — Andrea Levy
When I was in school, I was very much into just sports, mostly basketball, and didn't really see myself as much of a student. But once I got into college, I figured I wasn't going to be play beyond college. I started to think what was I going to do, since I wouldn't be able to make a living with basketball. There were a couple of things I liked to do. I wrote poetry, spoken word mostly. — Matt de la Pena
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten. — Ann Voskamp
Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of the degree to which one losses control of words once they are spoken or written. It was then that I first felt a deep curiosity about language, and understood it as a tool that encompasses both a single moment and eternity — Banana Yoshimoto
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action. — Karen Joy Fowler
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic. — James Gleick
It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before. — Stefanie Schneider
Words once spoken can never be recalled. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss. — Margaret George
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders. — Elisabeth Elliot
Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret. — Anthony Trollope
As I stood alone and forsaken, and the power of the sea and the battle of the elements reminded me of my own nothingness, and on the other hand, the sure flight of the birds recalled the words spoken by Christ: Not a sparrow shall fall on the ground without your Father: then, all at once, I felt how great and how small I was; then did those two mighty forces, pride and humility, happily unite in friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard
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