Ray Lewis Quotes

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Words are the money of fools.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

… poison tongues …

Just as the sword can kill, so can the tongue.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

I hope people will see how harmful words are and how irresponsible we can be when saying the wrong things at the wrong time to certain people.

One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Some people in D.C. talk about me like a dog.

The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

I want a place. It has to do with the kind of person I want to be. And how I fit in to everything. I want people to listen when I open my mouth. And know I'm worth listening to." She stared at me. "That's all?" To me it was not all, it was everything.