Quotes about power-of-words

The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow he put faith in the invisible Word it was the most miraculous thing in all the world though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Guard your hearts and thoughts it is well spring of either life or death.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

The gift of writing natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.

The words you speak into your life are the fountain you swim it.

The right word said at right time is sacred utterance.

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room,I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

Life is like a little book written With a whole lot of surprise.Spell a word that doesn´t fit inAnd that´s a spell in desguise.

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.

You are the owner and keeper of your word. Distribute them wisely.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a pathway to a wonderful future.

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.

Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

A good reader has the power to move the world.

It's amazing how much power a smile holds. It's contagious and brightens people's day. It's also the most powerful camouflage. For that person who seems to have it all together is merely masking the pain of drowning tears. Don't be so quick to assume.

Trust in this life is a hard thing to earn and keep.

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

One stone is enough to break a glass, One sentence is enough to break a heart,One smile is enough to fall in love,& one God is enough to live a fulfilling life..

Encouraging words are hands that pool others from the despair of life.

Words are forces of life.

Words are life. Carefully choose your words.

May our conscience be renewed by the WORD of GOD.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

The menu is not the meal.

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

Truth  is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation.", The Nation, October 7, 1996)

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was different.I started to cry.(…)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family—the first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault.I was confused about sex and sexuality, and upset about the straightforward practical problems of where to live, what

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

Be vulnerable! It is not someone else’s responsibility to break down your walls to get to you. It is your responsibility to let them in. This is crucial. Be more vulnerable with people in your life today. Know that being vulnerable is not a weakness – vulnerability means you are strong and secure enough within yourself to walk outside without your armor on.

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impuden

Winners will take what they know and share it with others.The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

Advice for the wise: You"d better bite your tongueRather than cast a spell wrong.

Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!

May you occupy your mind with positive words.

Words are spiritual forces.

When you have the grace to speak, declare sacred-utterances.

The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life.

While you are not responsible for the actions of another, you are able to consciously respond to everything in your reality. Your power to respond is your power to create.

The Scriptures are words of great encouragement.

If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

The sacred words are sword of life.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Words have no power... which you do not give them.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Do not judge a woman on her knees_you never know how tall she is when she stands!

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

Gracious words are refreshing to the soul.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

You are who you position yourself with

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separa

Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice. The mind is a powerful tool with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves.

When music hits you, you dance.

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.

Anything man can make, man can destroy.

...the truth was more powerful than a lie could ever be (Eric)

You don't need to kill with a sword, the tongue can do equally a better job and police will not knock on your door

The two words expressed volumes.

I read everything in that dusty little library. I read the prologues and the epilogues until I could tell you how many times Stephen King thanked his wife, Tabitha. I could tell you how the Columbia Indians made their long-houses, or how to make a solar toilet, or how to dry bear meat in the sun. I could tell you all of this if I could talk, but instead the words stayed inside of me and marveled. This I could accept, or so I told myself for a long time. Because the words were there, and they car

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.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me. Stones and sticks break only skin, while words are ghosts that haunt me. Slant and curved the word-swords fall, it pierces and sticks inside me. Bats and bricks may ache through bones, but words can mortify me. Pain from words has left its' scar, on mind and hear that's tender. Cuts and bruises have not healed, it's words that I remember.

Before the tears of the eyes dry outLet them sprinkle words on the paper Life is short and the man shall dieBut the words shall live on forever...

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy...it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation.

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that, well spent, returns ever greater riches.

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.