Action Quote by Jodi Picoult

“As he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn’t have to be shouted at you to make…

— Jodie Picoult

“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself…

— Victor Hugo

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

— George Orwell

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our…

— Hannah Kent

“And long afterwards, in moments of the greatest merriment, there would rise before him the figure of the little clerk with the balding brow,…

— Gogol Nicolai

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that…

— William Faulkner

“His theories of religion were neither large nor lofty; he accepted those that were handed down to him, and did not trouble himself as…

— George MacDonald

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural…

— Mark Twain

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words…

— Kate DiCamillo