W Quotes
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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”
“Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.”
Source: Arcadia
“Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.”
“Words are sexier than flesh.”
“Words are shadows - their value depends on the light source.”
“Words are shallow troughs for the deep water of the mind and it is only the fierce, the living, the simple, the clear, the angry mind which can overflow the troughs and go out over the mud, and over the grass, bearing the light of the sun on it like an angry shield.”
Source: Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984
“Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. ☥”
Source: Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus
“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”
“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.”
Source: Deep Play
“Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts, they paint watercolors of perception.”
Source: Deep Play
“Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.”
“Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.”
Source: 8 Ways to Keep the Devil Under Your Feet
“Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.”
“Words are so powerful. It can win wars, create kings, and sustain civilizations. - Wordwick Games by Kailin Gow”
Source: Wordwick Games Trilogy (An Epic Fantasy with SAT Prep Words) Books 1 - 3
“Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.”
Source: Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems
“Words are spirit and you cannot restrict them behind a jail cell. If someone has the power to damage you with their mind, they could be completely tied up, and you would not be able to restrain them. The activity of the mind can only be policed by a stronger mind.”
Source: Quantum Mechanics: The Science Of Spiritual Activity
“Words are spiritual containers.”
“Words are spiritual forces.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Words are spiritual. Think, speak and affirm positive words.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are steps along a path: the important thing is to get where you're going. You can play by all manner of rules, ... but you'll get there quicker if you pick the most certain route. Lies are complex things. Best not to bother thinking in terms of truth or lie-let necessity be your mother ... and invent!”
Source: Red Sister
“Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.”
“Words are such a blunt instrument for conveying feelings”
“Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.”
Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.”
Source: Dune Messiah
“Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good.”
“Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.”
Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
Source: Partners in Crime
“Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.”
“words are tender
and sensitive too
words understand
when others may not”
“WORDS ARE THE "ACTED-OUT"
VIBRATIONS OF OUR SOULS”
Source: Friend In Your Pocket Conversations With M.I.N.I M.E: Class Is Now In Session
“Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?”
“Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel
“Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.”
“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”
“Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.”
“Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.”
“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Words are the instruments you play to the song of your ideas, you're just playing covers.”
“Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.”
“Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.”
Source: Rise of Endymion
“Words are the litmus paper of the mind.”
“Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.”
Source: Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)
“Words are the lowest form of communication. Patterns are the highest.”
“Words are the most powerful forces in the Universe.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.”
“Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.”
Source: The Sovereignty of Good
“Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.”
Source: Festus: a poem
“Words are the new violence. Mouth is the new gun.”