Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

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 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.

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.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me.

It's so hard for me to insult people.

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.

Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters!

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.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there, but that doesn't matter to me.

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.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

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

Weapons are less harmful than words.

I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don't think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.