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


Yoko Ono

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SOTONYE ANGA Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.
GERMANY KENT Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...
MAYA ANGELOU Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. W...
VASHTI QUIROZ-VEGA I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's univer...
ALICIA KEYS One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power...
CASSANDRA CLARE Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming h...
A. L. KITSELMAN The words "I am" are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has ...
A. L. KITSELMAN When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Y...
YOKO ONO There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the...
STEPHEN KING There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...
PHILIP K. DICK There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE A good reader has the power to move the world.
AMAN JASSAL Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sw...
JOE ABERCROMBIE What a curious power words have.
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Be careful of your own words that it might not be turn in you
MIRAVEL OPIGAL 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 Words are the Power Weapons, But for intellectuals
ASHISH SOPHAT If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or ...
MARLO THOMAS Be careful of the words you say.And keep them soft and sweet. For you never know from day to day.Whi...
UNKNOWN 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 Yes, a person can accept your apology and forgive you for what you’ve said, but they will never fo...
STEPHANIE LAHART There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can ma...
MADS MIKKELSEN Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever real...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...
ROBERT GREENE Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...
STEPHEN KING You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
REBECCA SOLNIT God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spok...
A. W. TOZER Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written word...
SARAH HOLMAN Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing ...
SHANNON L. ALDER I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the ...
JIM BUTCHER I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are...
C.S. LEWIS Words derive their power from the original word.
MEISTER ECKHART No three words have greater power than I Love You.
SOURCE UNKNOWN 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 Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Words have power, and sometimes, they stay with
you for life. It’s up to you to allow those w...
DANIELE LANZAROTTA All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: ...
LAO TZU Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yoursel...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR 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 There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
JOSH BILLINGS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
WILFERD A. PETERSON Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
WILFRED PETERSON The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth...
RENE DENFELD Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and...
OLIVER MARKUS The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the...
JOEL OSTEEN Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get d...
ROBERT GREENE If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to...
HARRY SHEARER Words embody power to inspire or motivate us, but it is only we who have power to open up to see and...
ANUJ SOMANY What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when ...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Words have power.
MIRA GRANT O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Words, without power, is mere philosophy.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL One day, you muster the courage and let go of the fear. In a brief moment of insanity, you give wing...
K.J. KILTON Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to kno...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX There is a deep power in words that speak the truth
P.C. CAST I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, d...
LAURA WIESS Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words...
WILL CARLETON Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into exist...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA The inspired words, which flush my mind, come from a higher power!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un...
JODI PICOULT Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...
AMY TAN For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation t...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.
WILLIAM SHIRLEY Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.
ASHWIN SANGHI Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON What power has love but forgiveness?
In other words
by its intervention
what has been do...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have pow...
MICHAEL PALMER Will grinned. “Some of these books are dangerous,” he said. “It’s wise to be careful.”“O...
CASSANDRA CLARE If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR 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 There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib...
JOHN O'DONOHUE The intellectual power, through words and things,Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
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YOKO ONO Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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YOKO ONO Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You migh...
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YOKO ONO Spread the word. Spread the peace.
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YOKO ONO Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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YOKO ONO You're out of the shot, ... Do you mind playing a little nearer to the camera?
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YOKO ONO War is over if you want it.
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YOKO ONO It's not as though you're an old school friend of mine, Cynthia.
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YOKO ONO Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
YOKO ONO Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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YOKO ONO This shows the timelessness of John's prophetic, visionary songwriting.
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YOKO ONO You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.
YOKO ONO Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.
YOKO ONO I said, 'You're a good songwriter. It's not June with Spoon that you write. You're a good singer, an...
YOKO ONO I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you...
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YOKO ONO True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so l...
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YOKO ONO Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them ...
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YOKO ONO I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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YOKO ONO I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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YOKO ONO Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.
YOKO ONO Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the...
YOKO ONO I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
YOKO ONO Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.
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YOKO ONO I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confr...
YOKO ONO You can be very wild and still be very wise.
YOKO ONO Imagine the clouds dripping
Dig a hole in your garden to
put them in
YOKO ONO I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.
YOKO ONO Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
YOKO ONO This is the beginning of a significant era for the military transformation of the Japan-US alliance....
YOSHINORI ONO Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she wa...
FUYUMI ONO Our refueling efforts have been highly evaluated by the foreign countries, but there has also been c...
YOSHINORI ONO