Cher Quotes

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.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

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.

There are words which cut like steel.

Weapons are less harmful than words.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

Words could be just as deadly as steel.

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

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

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

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

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

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

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

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

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

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