James Hoagland Quotes

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

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

Words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government

When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move … When the leader talks, people listen. When the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Words are powerful.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.