For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Donatella Versace

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson

SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.
Lynette Fromme

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

Comeback is a good word, man.
Mickey Rourke

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
Ralph Ellison

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Baltasar Gracian

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad