W Quotes
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“Words have no power... which you do not give them.”
Source: The Village Sang to the Sea: A Memoir of Magic
“Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.”
Source: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
“Words have no word for words that are not true.”
“Words have oppressed, and liberated countless. It is a weapon that can be used to inspire and save lives, or discourage and forsake them.”
“Words have power.”
“Words have power, and all things of power are dangerous.”
Source: Poisoned Prose
“Words have power, and reclaiming them turns pain into prophecy—a wound into a welcome.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It’s up to you to allow those words to define who you become.”
Source: Sudden Hope
“Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.”
Source: Heart Crush
“Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.”
Source: Ten Grand, Vol. 1
“Words have power. Put them to use in improving life.”
“Words have power. So does the absence of words. Sometimes, when people choose not to speak, their silence can block out the sun.”
Source: Good Dirt
“Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.”
Source: Trophy Life
“Words have power, they can destroy and create. Sometimes a single word can change everything. Watch your words. Take care of it.”
“Words have power, which is why Imam Ali says, “Speak only when your words are more beautiful than the silence.” After all, everything in existence sprouted from the vibration of the divinely uttered word “Be! And it is” (36:82). So remember, your tongue is like a knife; it can either kill like the sword of a samurai or save like the scalpel of a surgeon.”
Source: Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
“Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon”
Source: Crave the Moon
“Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.”
“Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.”
Source: Collateral: A Novel
“Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.”
“Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, In the beginning was the word. In the same way, your words have creative power.”
“Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.”
Source: Firespell: A Novel of the Dark Elite
“Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Words have ruined the standard beauty and Numbers have exaggerated the weight of wealth.”
“Words have the power to change us.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Words have the power to elevate or debilitate. Are you using words to your advantage or disadvantage?”
“Words have the power to transform the person
Words have the power to heal the person
Words have the power to break the person
Words have the power destroy the person
Words reflects the content of your heart
Let your words pass through your heart before speak”
“Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
Source: Death with Interruptions
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
“Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.”
“Words have to be used wisely; nothing can heal and hurt like words spoken.”
“Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.”
Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:
“Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.”
Source: The prime of life
“Words have tremendous power and energy. They can educate, heal, and illuminate the mind.”
“Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.”
Source: Home: Social Essays
“Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.”
“Words have weight.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.”
Source: The Constant Princess
“Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Words, he knew, could scar.”
Source: Salem Falls
“Words his soul danced to.”
Source: Remembering Babylon
“Words hold a terrible power, your Grace. A word can break a heart, or give it a reason to live. A word can grant freedom or life, or begin a war – or end one. I believe words should be used with caution. It is written that the tongue is a dangerous weapon, a restless evil that no man can tame, a flame that sets on fire the world itself. I believe that, Your Grace. I believe in taking great care with words.”
Source: The Anger of Angels
“Words hurt a relationship, but silence kills it.”
“Words hurt. I can hide in words so long as I scatter them through my body;”
“Words hurt my feelings. It really hurts when everyone else laughs too. It is not a good feeling. Not a good feeling at all.”
Source: Teachers Just Don't Understand Bullying Hurts
“Words hurt relationships. Silence kills them.”
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. Cerulean, azure, blue. Shadowy, sombre, secret. Voluptuous, sensuous, amorous. Kiss, hiss, abyss.
Some words sounded dangerous. Pagan. Tiger.
Some words seemed to shine. Crystal. Glissade.
Some words changed their meaning as I grew older. Ravishing.”
Source: Bitter Greens
“Words… I never loved you with words.”
“Words
I ONCE HEARD A MAN SAY OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE I READ, OR MAYBE SOMETHING I WROTE A THOUSAND TIMES IN MY MIND. YOU GOT TO FIND YOUR OWN MEANING IN THIS WORLD. NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CHANGED, YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE THINGS YOU HAVE DONE. AS I CONTINUE ON MY JOURNEY OR WHAT SOME CALL THE LONG ROAD OF LIFE I KNOW I WILL REMEMBER THAT SPECIAL YOU.
KNOWING I WILL SEE YOU FOREVER IN MY DREAMS IN THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT.”
“Words I Should Have Told My Mother
A tribute to my beloved Mother
I love you for being
Wonderful
Colourful
Powerful
Prayerful
Beautiful
Cheerful
Kind
Wise
Lovely
Loving
Noble
Confident
Excellent
Perfect
Patient
Resilient
Significant
A warrior
And for being great!
These are the words
I should have told my loving Mother!”
Source: From My Mother's Classroom: A Badge of Honour for a Remarkable Woman