“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
Source: The Story of a New Name
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Elena Ferrante 25
Italian writer 1943Related quotes
“You may have as many words as you please, – only I can’t stay to hear them.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Helen to Gilbert
“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice
“What they do, no authority upon earth can undo.”
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769)
Context: Book I, ch. 2 https://lonang.com/library/reference/tucker-blackstone-notes-reference/tuck-202/: Of the Parliament.
King's words after a bomb was thrown into his house in Alabama, on 30 January 1956, in Stride Toward Freedom (1958)
1950s
Context: If you have weapons, take them home; if you do not have them, please do not seek to get them. We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence. We must meet violence with nonviolence. Remember the words of Jesus: "He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword." We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us. We must make them know that we love them. Jesus still cries out in words that echo across the centuries: "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that despitefully use you." This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love. Remember, if I am stopped, this movement will not stop, because God is with the movement. Go home with this glowing faith and this radiant assurance.
“You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.”
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life
“Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.”
MM Lee Kuan Yew, after 2006 Elections http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/singapore-tries-to-imagine-a-future-without-lee-kuan-yew/2015/03/18/b12acc7c-cbe7-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html
2000s