Quotes about Expression

I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when we use them; so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer means. So, whatever good meanings are in the book, I'm glad to accept as the meaning of the book.

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.

I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least—at least I mean what I say—that's the same thing, you know.

The saber we've been entrusted to bear is not lifted with our hands; it is raised by our words.

Women are incredibly valuable, but often we have failed to express this to one another. Perhaps we have not heard it enough. Not in the media. Not in the church. Not in our homes. Not in the area of sexuality. Not in our relationships. As we realize and affirm our inherent value, our strengths will be magnified. What we will become will be increasingly apparent. The dark, shadowy mirror will clear, and our original role and the beauty it carries will be revealed.

I don't need to roar, for I hold the power of the whisper. I don't have to be black or white ... for I am the color and beauty of creation!

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Words are spiritual containers.