W Quotes
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“Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.”
“Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.”
Source: The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
“Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.”
“Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!”
“words: They aren’t the actual thing being said. They are just symbols or carriers of our energy. Feel the energy to know what’s really being said. Listen within...”
“Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.”
Source: Observations
“Words, thoughts, are powerful.”
Source: The Psychedelic Trip Journal
“Words tie our lives together ribboned as the greatest gifts we give each other, entwining us, the threads by which we accomplish living.”
“Words to deeds cold breath gives.”
“Words to feed your passion. Thought to stoke your flickering embers. I see your unseen fires & feed it with my timber.”
“Words to intrigue, inspire, examine, question, praise;
Words to help us appreciate our world, our selves, our games;
Words to dance our true soul fires gracefully free.”
“Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.”
“words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.”
“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
“Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.”
“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.”
Source: The Lives of the English Poets
“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.”
Source: The Lives of the English Poets
“Words touch him in ways, this air, this water, this earth haven't been able to. They touch him in ways only something like love or heartache can do. Something miniscule in the air erupts into something too large for his vision to comprehend. On the surface of his skin, goosebumps sprout, while he watches them rising in wonder. Unable to bear the lightness with which that music carries dense spirits of something as intangible as time, he glides away from the rock and flees from the song.”
Source: Litost: Sliced Stories
“Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.”
“Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”
“Words turn into people’s lives every time I open up my laptop”
Source: A Fool's Circle
“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”
Source: Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Words uttered in desperation have a sell by date.”
“Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.”
“Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.”
“Words weighed light, light as a feather, even the most important of them.”
Source: Inkspell
“Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.”
Source: Winter's Tale
“Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.”
Source: The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel
“Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.”
Source: Fly By Night
“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
“Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.”
Source: Redwork
“Words were her plague and words were her redemption.”
Source: Hermione
“Words were his delight;
Hers, a gay gracefulness
Of dancing and moving.
But when to the place
Of deep loving
(Starlight at midnight)
At last they came,
Their full communion
And consummation,
Their complete sphere,
Was stillness for her,
Silence for him.”
“Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.”
“Words were loaded. They came with uninvited memories and they had guest. Tears weren’t welcome here.”
Source: Montgomery's Diary
“Words were magic. They healed me when I was sick, comforted me when I was scared, and guided me when I was lost and alone...When confused, I consulted the Qur'an through kheerah. When thirsty, I drank from the brass cup inscribed with the Throne Verse. If I lost something, I incanted the besmalah and I would find it. We hung calligraphy on the walls and wore jewelry with Islamic inscriptions. When we entered the house, we announced our arrival with "Salam" so that evil spirits would flee.”
Source: Hadha Baladuna: Arab American Narratives of Boundary and Belonging
“Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.”
“Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.”
“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.”
“Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.”
“Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross.”
“Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.”
Source: Mrs. Miniver
“Words were torn from him. Ones he’d never spoken, in a language long since extinct, but only they could truly convey what she was to him, how much she meant.
Eternity wouldn’t be enough...”
Source: Binding Ecstasy
“Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.”
Source: Inkspell
“Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone.”
Source: City of Bones
“Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.”
“Words
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Source: Words
“Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.
Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind.”