Rodney Frelinghuysen Quotes

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Everything that we say has consequences. I mean, words matter.

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.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

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

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

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

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.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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

Every act of folly can be justified by the deed that preceded it.

The speaker does not own the words he utters, or control their effect.

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

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.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

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

Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.