W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Words can be more lethal than blades, Magnus.”
Source: The Ship of the Dead
“Words can be more lethal than blades, Magnus. And Loki is a master of words. To beat him, you must find your inner poet. Only one thing can give you a chance to beat Loki at his own game.”
“Mead,” I guessed. “Kvasir’s Mead.”
The answer didn’t sit right with me. I’d been on the streets long enough to see how well “mead” improved people’s skills. Pick your poison: beer, wine, vodka, whiskey. Folks claimed they needed it to get through the day. They called it liquid courage. It made them funnier, smarter, more creative. Except it didn’t. It just made them less able to tell how unfunny and stupid they were acting.”
Source: The Ship of the Dead
“Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies”
“Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.”
“Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.”
“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
“Words can be used as a bomb or balm.”
“Words can be used to create actions from others.”
“Words can be used
to dismantle unfaltering dictatorships.
And equally, they can fuel savage wars.”
Source: A Scrapyard for Dreams
“Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.”
“Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together”
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
“Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.”
“Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC.
“Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“Words can cause deep wounds; choose them wisely.”
Source: Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer
“Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.”
“Words can crush things that are unseen.”
“Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.”
Source: National and international dimensions
“Words can do a lot
Make sure you use them properly".
-Damodhar L. Vanjari.”
“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.”
“Words can either build you or break you.”
“Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.”
“Words can even make us feel the heartbeats of people whom we love and care for!”
“Words can evoke emotions, change minds, teach lessons, convey ideas, lift spirits, or simply make us smile. I am here to tell you that as a young boy, when I read the great authors, the words sang and danced for me; the words caused me to dream; the words caused me to laugh and smile; The words gave me hope; The words brought me to tears. Young and unaware, I wondered how this is possible-how can words on a page in a book have such a profound effect on me? So many years later, I believe I finally know the answer to that question: Words are the foundation of our humanity. We exist in our words. We are the words that we choose. Words matter. It’s as simple as that.”
Source: The Weight of a Moment
“Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can sing.”
“Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.”
Source: The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi
“Words can give life or take life and most of the time they just leave us as the walking dead”
“Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.”
“Words can heal, words can also kill. Choose your words carefully so that you'll pull people away from their emotional graves rather than pushing them into it! Inspire, don't insult!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Words can heal, words can harm; choose them to uplift.”
“Words can hurt, and only words can heal that hurt.”
“Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.”
“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.”
Source: Let's go to the Next Level
“Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.”
“Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose your words well.”
“Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well”
“Words can lie. See beyond them.”
Source: Red Queen
“Words can make, and words can break.”
“Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.”
“Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening... and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples”
“Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word. Let's make an example. Take the word gay. Fifty years ago, gay meant exclusively cheerfulness, lighthearted excitement, merry or bright colors. Today this word has a different meaning. You won't call a cheerful person gay because it could be understood as something else.”
“Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.”
Source: The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.”
“words can never get at the truth.”
Source: Ship of Fools: A Novel
“Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.”
“Words can not express the joy of new life.”