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Quotes About Words

Words are just words, Who they come from gives them Relevance, And this Relevance gives them the Power to Hurt you.Make those who Hurt you Irrelevant.
~ Drishti Bablani
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It's simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself
~ Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Words shall not be hidnor spells buriedmight shall not sink undergroundthough the mighty go.
~ Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala
Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.
~ Mercedes Lackey
A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~ John Bunyan
When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
~ Lamar Boschman
If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
~ R. A. Torrey
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
~ Mark Batterson
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.
~ John of Kronstadt
"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?
~ William Wordsworth
The paper burns, but the words fly away.
~ Rabbi Akiva
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
~ Petrarch
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
~ Leo Burnett
Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
The stumbling block isn't the certainty effect per se. It's the way that smart people are influenced by mere words, by the way the choices are framed.
~ William Poundstone
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
~ William Safire
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
~ William Seward Burroughs
Words pay no debts.
~ William Shakespeare