47 Quotes About Our-words

Our words set the direction for our lives.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

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

But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.

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.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.