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"Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil."
"We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege"
"If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned."
"Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world"
"I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Ron opened his mouth in horror. “Which goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,” Dumbledore went on, smiling."
"Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling."
"Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
"We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word."
"We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true."
"Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them."
"We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words."
"All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet."
"Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word."
"Our words must seem to be inevitable."
"For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture."
"I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet."
"Our words should aim not to please, but to help."
"One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have."
