Quote by Beverly Cleary

“It was previously understood across many cultures that your thoughts might just be enemy soldiers putting you under siege.”

— Sebastian Marshall

“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.”

— Anthony Powell

“Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness.”

— Joseph Fink

“I’ll persuade you to tell me all about what kind of waters you’ve muddled your feet in, and I’ll tell you about the trouble…

— James L. Rubart

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

— Carolee Dean

“did it ever occur to whoever wrote that stupid adage that hurtful words might be a pretty good indication that sticks and stones are…

— Brent Hartinger

“It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.”

— N. Scott Momaday

“The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back…

— Ransom Riggs

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Words are weapons.”

— Cassandra Clare

“sometime... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication.”

— Upasana Banerjee

“Instead of attacking, focused on taking away the stick.”

— William Ury