“Some languages shape conversations. Others shape history.”
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“There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Source: The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.”
Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.”
Source: Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume
“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings
“The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.”
“God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.”
Source: The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815