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.

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Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never...
ROSELYNN CANNES, FALLEN

Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU

And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ...
JOHN GREEN

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives o...
JOHN M SHEEHAN

Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ...
EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !
SYED SHARUKH Your story matters. The thoughts you think matter. The words you use matter. It can be the differenc...
KRISTIN RATH

The menu is not the meal.
ALAN W. WATTS Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Di...
OREO QUEEN But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer...
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phr...
GEORGE ORWELL

The fewer the words, the better you’re heard!
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written word...
SARAH HOLMAN Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me.
Stones and sticks break only...
RUBY REDFORT

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

Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own....
ALAN W. WATTS

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.
ORSON SCOTT CARD

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
NICOLE KRAUSS Words are the greatest gift to mankind by God to express emotions.
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Holy words, blessings of guru, visiting religious empire daily will not help you if you do not act u...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
RUDYARD KIPLING

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, ...
TOM STOPPARD All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a p...
J.M.G. LE CLéZIO

Words have power.
MIRA GRANT Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, &...
BO SANCHEZ That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library ...
ROBERT CORMIER

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious o...
HENRY HAZLITT

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures lik...
MUNIA KHAN Words do not create change as much as example does. Be the example
BRENT M. JONES The hardest part is that some of the words do have syllables in common with other words. You can con...
GREG TIPPMAN

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they ca...
SIGMUND FREUD

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

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that y...
YOKO ONO

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...
ROBERT GREENE

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very...
URSULA K. LE GUIN

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names...
MARCEL PROUST

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...
ECKHART TOLLE

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between differ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-gu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

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...
EMILY DICKINSON

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm d...
JOHN LENNON There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind th...
DIANE SETTERFIELD Words Have The Power To Change Us
CASSANDRA CLARE Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force ...
YEHUDA BERG What a curious power words have.
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI Spoken words have power beyond measure.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Fe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enoug...
TERRY PRATCHETT The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grapsed, the words are forgotten. Where ...
CHUANG TZU Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.
GERMANY KENT Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
STEPHEN SONDHEIM While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES Words have the power to change us." - Tessa Gray
CASSANDRA CLARE You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
REBECCA SOLNIT Words derive their power from the original word.
MEISTER ECKHART At least it's showing that words have power.
PENN JILLETTE I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
ANTONY SHER Words
are powerful
forces of nature.

they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN words are important. No words at all are the hardest to hear
JANE YATES Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
STONE GOSSARD You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the...
JOEL OSTEEN You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ...
RALPH ABERNATHY Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. W...
VASHTI QUIROZ-VEGA If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I form...
TAHEREH MAFI When words fail music speaks.
IRENA HUANG My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to mak...
JOSEPH CONRAD There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...
PHILIP K. DICK There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
E.L. DOCTOROW What you say is what you become, be careful with your words
SOTONYE ANGA Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including t...
GILLES DELEUZE Words are the Power Weapons, But for intellectuals
ASHISH SOPHAT You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Ch...
RALPH ABERNATHY Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, hav...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.
JOSHUA WISENBAKER There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dign...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY No three words have greater power than I Love You.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Words can hurt, but words can also inspire.
MISCHA TEMAUL Poetry Saved Me
BEV FLYNN Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of th...
SIGMUND FREUD The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: ...
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS

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.

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