#words

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deeds #doing #good #good deed #kind

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words. ↗

— Shakira

#before #care #conscious #fact #feel

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has. ↗

— Alia Shawkat

#balance #gives #ludicrous #reality #times

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#defeated #done #fire #fists #i

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bolton #broken #committee #consolation #endorsement

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#because #benefits #children #cloth #cut

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#clothes #deserve #dress #more #only

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#describe #feels #her #indignation #proud

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. ↗

— Richard Steele

#destruction #engines #fire #gossip #slow