Asghar Ali Engineer Quotes

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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 can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

There are words which cut like steel.

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

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. 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.

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

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

If things are said maliciously, and they're meant to hurt, then that's the sort of thing we need to try and stamp out.

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.

Trash talk is dangerous, especially when it comes from hearsay.

It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.

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.

You're bruised, as ugly as one of your Cyclops, and I can barely stand to look at you." - Duncan to Madelyne.

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

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

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.