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When we say disparaging things, even about inanimate objects, they can stick, so use discernment as to what you put out to the universe.
— Russell Eric Dobda
The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.
— Matthew Woodring Stover
Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.
— Malcolm Bradbury
In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,
— Ashwin Sanghi
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
— Michael Polanyi
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
— John Wesley
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
— Eugene H. Peterson
What we call things matters ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.
— Anna Quindlen
Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.
— Tony Robbins
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
— Alfred Korzybski
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
— Sigmund Freud
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
We are called to reflect the Lord's beauty through our lives as much as through our words, and God will use this in His own perfect time.
— Helen Roseveare
Words are the tools we use to express our reality.
— Steve Maraboli
If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.
— Jean Parker
Often it's not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us." "You're a funny bookseller, you
— Nina George
Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.
— Nick Vujicic
Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel better thus impacting our decisions and actions.
— Maddy Malhotra
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
— Jeanette Winterson
So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. — Peter Ackroyd
Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.
— Rosemary M. Wixom
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.
— Lewis Carroll
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.
— Philip Kitcher