Quotes About Words

There can be no neutrality. Not for anyone, still less for a writer. Those who use the weapon of words as an ornament or a toy leave the field open to the adversary.

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Remember my words: Be truthful, be kind to one another, and you will attain peace. We will meet again in another life.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

When you say a word—negative or positive—you release powerful forces. Every word you say has power. There is no such thing as a powerless word. —Marianne Williamson

The right words communicate; the wrong words obfuscate.

Writing is writing

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

THOUGHTS WORDS BELIEFS ACTIONS RESULTS

Our daily words and actions lead to decisions, our decisions create habits, and our habits create our future selves.

Anger is simply momentary madness, and sometimes there is strength in silence. After all, he is only throwing words, not stones.

I won't say the pain was indescribable, since there are plenty of good descriptive words: excruciating, agonizing, unbearable, and so on.

I believe words contain worlds of words and meanings that are, more often than not, locked beneath the surface. Poetry is what happens when words are opened up, and those worlds within are made visible, and the music behind the words is heard. And songs do that, too, just in a different order.

You want words to burst into the room, demand your attention, and remind you how exciting things can be. You have a responsibility to challenge yourself to use them in a way that is more vivid than your normal daily usage.

I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint. He knew how much I hated words like love .

The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.

Be still that human need. To fill the silence with words.

RATS. In sewers. In religions. In words like pirate, desperate, and narrative. Rats infest this glossary as surely as words and mushrooms.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time, as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

He's a man who measures words as if he had only a few given to him by Fate; too generous a syllable from his lips, and he might fall over dead.

En ese tiempo, un lunes era todos los lunes, las palabras se volvían mágicas, las gentes se desdoblaban en personajes incorpóreos y los paisajes se transmutaban en colores.

Entre el poder de la oración y las palabras que la contenían existía la misma distancia que entre las dos Isabeles:

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy?