Wendell Phillips Quotes

Words are also actions.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

People do stupid things... words are important.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

But words are more powerful than anything.

What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

If your words're true, they're armed.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.