Meryl Streep Quotes

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

The medium is the message.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

If you write something, and you believe in it, you'd like to see sixty million people moved by it.

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words have the power to change us.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

Words are powerful.