There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalp...
The sacred words are sword of life.
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 drop of ink may make a million think.
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We liv...
Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.
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 read [in, by T.S. Eliot]: I started to cry.(…)The unfamiliar and beautiful p...
In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed...
The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.
The power to create lies in the thoughts and words.
Encouragements are persuasive words.
Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).
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...
A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of...
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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.
There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the...
Be careful of what you allow your mind to dwell on. And the words that come out of your mouth.
Every word comes from the heart.
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