Our Words Quotes - Page 7

• All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Media, Different, Able

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

  Georgia Heard

  Writing, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

  Adrian Rogers

  Devil, Use, Dictionary

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• Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Heart, Humble

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

  William Hazlitt

  Belief, Action, Sincerity

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.27

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• We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Real, Thinking, Facts

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• In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

  John Calvin

  Sweet, Grace, Filled

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• try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Hurt, People, Evil

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• All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

  Nora Raleigh Baskin

  Reality, Talking, Long

  Nora Raleigh Baskin (2009). “Anything But Typical”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Essence, People, Care

  "Characters: Of Society and Conversation #32", 1688.

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• A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Powerful, Book

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.521, Courier Corporation

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• To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not.

  Elif Safak

  Prayer, Heart, Differences

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• Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

  Robin Lee

  Attitude, People, Focus

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• We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

  Violette Leduc

  Talking, Feelings, Bones

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• If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

  Hannah More

  Deeds, Crime, Commit

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.65

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• This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fall, Entertainment, Forget

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• There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is missing in the words on the page of a book, and the notes on the score.

  Howard Snell

  Book, Giving, Missing

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• Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.

  Sami Yusuf

  Waiting, Promise, Hunger

  FaceBook post by Sami Yusuf from Feb 16, 2012

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• The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Running, Ideas

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• Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

  Melina Marchetta

  Language, Lost

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Dance, God, Sports

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

  Adrienne Rich

  Moving, Privilege, Responsible

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

  Anne Rice

  Giving, Suffering, Awful

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