The best Quotes and Sayings about Words

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Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

MagicAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II
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Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Love, WritingDavid Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Hollywood Undead - Lion
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

AppearanceRumi
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe
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A heavy hart can't be freed by words. But words can lead to action.

HeartFriedrich Schiller
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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

ThoughtsDead Poets Society, by John Keating
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Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.

Yone the Unforgotten in League of Legends
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

PoesieEdgar Allan Poe
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Poesie, WritingNathaniel Hawthorne
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When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

WritingStephen King in The Stand
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Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way, they can turn into ugly weapons.

Conan Edogawa in Case Closed (Detective Conan)
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The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

WritingNeil Postman
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That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

Pascal Mercier in Night Train to Lisbon
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Love is a word you gave it a name.

LoveNegative - THE MOMENT OF OUR LOVE, Album: War Of Love
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

ReadingErnest Hemingway
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He who doesn't recognize the value of silence, doesn't know about the power of words.

SilencePavel Kosorin
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

TruthMark Twain
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Say something worth the words.

Tracy Chevalier
 
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Words are where most change begins.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance
 
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Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

Foundation, Season 1
 
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The right word cuts more deeply than a knife.

KnifesCamille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends
 
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Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

WarMaester Luwin in Game of Thrones, Season 1 Episode 2
 
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Words have a lot of power.

Juice WRLD
 
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling
 
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

WritingAnne Rice
 
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No armies, no war, no oppression - but words have the ability to change the course of things.

PeaceFrank-Walter Steinmeier (as Foreign-Minister of Germany), February 2015
 
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Talking, KindnessJoel Osteen
 
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I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

ReadingCaroline Kennedy
 
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.

Zinedine Zidane
 
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Revolution, IdeasRobin Williams
 
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Writing, MediaCarol Burnett
 
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My father told and taught me that 'the word can hit harder than the fist.'

Wladimir Klitschko
 
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