Empty Words Quotes

“If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.”
― Teck Foo Check, The Autobiography of Sun Tzu

“You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Message Remix

“The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”
― Ian McGuire, The North Water

“…they speak great swelling words of emptiness…”
― 2 Peter 2 18

“Empty words degrade language.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“My inference will be that you mean nothing at all. That you employ words to no manner or purpose without any design or signification whatsoever. And I leave it to you to consider how mere jargon should be treated.”
― George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

“There is more said in silence than in a crowd of thousands.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others,
Or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories;
We find ourselves confined”
― Chuck Schuldiner

“Je ne me fîerai point à des propos si doux,
Qu'un peu de ses faveurs, après quoi je soupire.
Ne vienne m'assurer tout ce qu'ils m'ont pu dire.”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla.”
“Has he had anything published?”
“Not yet.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland

“The silence was no longer an uncomfortable enemy to me. Empty words were.”
― Ivy Oakes, What if Stars Don't Die

“I can weave thousands of words into moving syntax and powerful prose. But if I lay the pen down at the close of the final sentence, and if in doing so I myself have not acted on the words that I have woven, it would have been better had I said nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Silence is the space that we create when all of the noise around us finally realizes that it hasn’t said anything, that it’s not going to say anything, but it can’t bring itself to shut up.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The vice of "verbalism" can be defined as the bad habit of using words without regard for the thoughts they should convey and without awareness of the experiences to which they should refer. It is playing with words. As the two tests we have suggested indicate, "verbalism" is the besetting sin of those who fail to read analytically. Such readers never get beyond the words. They possess what they read as a verbal memory that they can recite emptily. (P. 127)”
― Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“My pen lies idle, its ink long since dried up, leaving me with nothing but blank pages and a hollow sense of emptiness.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“La technique de l'extrême-droite consiste à marteler, marteler, et marteler encore : que personne ne puisse donner une définition précise des termes « woke » ou « islamo-gauchisme » n'a que peu d'importance, ce qui compte c'est que ces mots et le flot d'idées nauséabondes qu'ils véhiculent colonisent progressivement notre vocabulaire et, de là, nos esprits.”
― Salomé Saqué, Résister