Careless Speech Quotes

People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

If we only knew how many times our seemingly clever comment cut straight into the heart of the person with whom we have just spoken, it is we who would bleed.

When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.

A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

I don't emphasize the whatevs. I say it as if it's truly a toss-away word.

Sometimes I've said things that I shouldn't have.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.