My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions. - Abigail Adams There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope. - Jo Bonner Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. - Socrates We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. - Martin Luther King Jr Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own wor...

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words; in fact, I have found that during many situations of life, words are just noise and actions are the ONLY things that speak. - Steve Maraboli Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you. - Dale Carnegie There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness. - Frank Herbert If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. - Fran Lebowitz We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than...

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely. - Andre Agassi And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them. - Kim Stanley Robinson It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. - Rene Char America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. - Jennifer M Granholm

He kissed each finger, and with each one of them spoken a word. Five kisses, five words. His last. - Cassandra Clare When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words. - Mark Burnett Oh, good," he muttered. "We're going to discuss it now." "No discussion," she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. "It's perfectly simple. No One Must Ever Know." He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. "Do you know," he said, "I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized. - Loretta Chase We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images. - John Gardner...

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise? - Mitch Albom Father Arnold finished the ceremony and asked if anybody had any final words for the dearly departed. "Final words?" Chess asked, "I don't know if I'll ever be able to stop talking about this. - Sherman Alexie Either that wallpaper goes or I do' Final words of Oscar Wilde. - Oscar Wilde I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us to save us...Won't you look at the sky? They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes. - David Berman Manilov was pleased by these final words, but he still couldn't make sense of the deal itself, and for want of an answer, he began sucking his clay pipe so hard that it started to wheeze like a bassoon. He seemed to be trying to extract from it an opinion about this unprece...

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. - Abigail Adams At last- I had already given up hope- he broke throught the magic wall; at last helped me; at last he said a few words. Those were the only words I heard him speak today. 'You are tiring yourself Joseph,' he said softly, his voice full of that touching friendlness and solicitude you know so well. That was all. 'You are tiring yourself Joseph. - Hermann Hesse Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was. - Charles M Schulz Instead of explaining the sober facts of mechanics and electricity, I want to say a few words about the debt which we owe to youth; and with your permission I shall consider you as representing here not only the academic youth of Sweden nor even of Europe but also of America. - Felix Bloch Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41) - William Shakespeare Fame - a few words upon a tomb...

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Plato False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. - Socrates

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. - Augusto Roa Bastos Oh, he'll try, I'm sure... The usual empty words, the usual slithering out of action.. - J K Rowling I believed I would never trust another person for as long as I lived. Yet, I couldn't help but trust him; the decision was made before I even realized what was happening. He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe. - Rachel Higginson He forced my soul back into innocent belief, not by empty words or false promises but by consistent action that never failed. He was safe. - Rachel Higginson Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all. - Tanya Huff Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. ...

Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother's surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though...it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words. - Trudi Canavan I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. - Justin Halpern A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind. - Cynthia Hand September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so. - Catherynne M Valente "I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa, Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look sh...

If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. - Rita Dove Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words...leave people tone deaf. - Sanjo Jendayi You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel. - Anne Mccaffrey One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits. - Fay Weldon

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. - James Joyce I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. - James Joyce Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway I respect you," he murmured. "and your views. I think of you as an equal. I respect your brains, and all those big words you like to use. But I also want to rip your clothes off and have sex with you until you scream and cry and see God." -Jack Travis (Smooth Talking Stranger) - Lisa Kleypas I snatched the paper away from Dopey. "Hey," he yelled. "I was reading that!" "Let somebody who can pronounce all the big words have a try," I said. - Meg Cabot People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? - L M Montgomery It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow...

I can't stay, said Chanu, and they clung to each other inside a sadness that went beyond words and tears, beyond that place, those causes and consequences, and became a part of their breath, their marrow, to travel with them from now to wherever they went. - Monica Ali The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words. - Lisa Kleypas You said to me once that you weren't what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that's caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you're gods' blessed for no other reason, it's for that. - Melina Marchetta God, i love you, so, so much. It's beyond words for me too, honey. I'm so pissed at myself for not having the balls to tell you before. To think we could have had this...the whole time. - Kahlen Ay...

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake. - Cecelia Ahern I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that. - Brian Andreas A picture is worth a thousand words. - Napoleon Bonaparte Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer! - Ray Bradbury One picture is worth a thousand words - Albert Einstein So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Any...