harmful words Quotes

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

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

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

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

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

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

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.

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.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

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