Power Of Words Quotes

“Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life.”
― NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

“There is always more strength to draw from. You must find where it hides and wield it.”
― Rebecca Ross, Sisters of Sword and Song

“Anyway', Anthony said ushering them away, 'that's Literature. One of the worst applications of Babel education, if you ask me.'
'You don't approve?' Robin asked. He shared Victoire's delight; a life spent on the fourth floor would be wonderful.
'Me? No.', Anthony chuckled, 'I'm here for silver-working. I think the Literature Department are an indulgent lot, as Vimal knows. See, the sad thing is they could be they could be the most dangerous scholars of them all, because they are the ones who really understand languages - know how they live and breathe or how they can make our blood pump, our skin prickle with just a turn of a phrase. But they are just too obsessed fiddling with their lovely images to bother with how all that living energy might be channelled into something far more powerful. I mean, of course, silver.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twist and fold over itself. I'm not sure if that's true but it feels true. Of course, I read that in a book, and maybe the book was just bragging.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

“Your words have power. [...]

"How are you?"
"Ah - can't complain," or "No use complaining," or "Not too bad."
How does the brain respond to these dreary views?
Is it a "pain in the neck" to do the dishes? Is it "one big headache" to balance your checkbook? Are you "sick and tired" of the weather we are having?

I am convinced that [doctors] owe a large part of their income to the words we use. Remember, the brain is no subtle interpreter. It says, "This guy's asking for a headache. Okay. One headache coming up."

Of course, every time that we say something gives us a pain, a pain does not immediately result. The body's natural state is good health, and all its processes are geared toward health. In time, though, with enough verbal pounding away at its defenses, it delivers up the very illnesses we order.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“She was the book thief without words.
Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like the rain.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“For her the magic was not what words had been, but what they were capable of: their ability to sketch, with one sweeping brushstroke, the contours of an experience, the form of a feeling. How they could make the effable effable, how they could never be fully unraveled, it held infinite mysteries and wonders and sometimes all you could do was stand agape, rubbing your eyes, trying to see properly.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“The irony of being a good person is that you understand a bad person very well.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“And life is nothing more than a war of ideas and beliefs, and the right idea touch the heart and refresh it like a sea breeze and it never dies no matter how weak its arguments are”
― Elhachemi Sabi

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Words spoken by kind people have the ability to endure in our lives.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“A creation myth lays the foundation for how you got here, where you came from, and what your role is now that you’re here.

Depending on the civilization and myth, it can tell you who’s in charge and what they value. There’s something interesting about the power of narrative. How can a story from so long ago influence so many people for so long?”
― Eric Overby

“Abernathy turned on him as if he’d said something inciting. ‘Reading it won’t change a damn thing.’

‘It won’t,’ he agreed. ‘But you’ll be going where he went, looking where he looked, smiling when he smiled. You’ll be in all the same places.’

She fell silent after that, and Pilgrim did, too. The book remained untouched on the floor.”
― G. X. Todd

“If you use all your power for the sake of a disgraced person, won"t consider it if you hold hands in the worst time, will say I was a ladder for you to succeed”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Bravery is a single act of courage and it doesn’t tell the full story. Courage powers us from deep inside.
It wills us to shake off the disappointment, push on through, blaze a new trail.”
― Janet Autherine, The Heart and Soul of Black Women: Poems of Love, Struggle and Resilience

“. . . beneath the surface, Emily was trying to understand if writers were responsible for the feelings they prompted in others: if hurling a word had the same effect as throwing a stone. Was imagination—like a loaded gun—the one pulling the trigger?”
― Martha Ackmann, These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

“Words are free. It does not mean you should abuse them. Be kind with them. They will mirror your actions.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“A new world opens when you see words as more than just letters joined together.

Words are the key to new possibilities and adventures.”
― Hadinet Tekie

“Words had this certain power; the more you said things, the realer they became. But if you don't say them, you can't address them.”
― Ramayana Roxas, Unwanted

“I want my words to be ones that speak life, not death. I want my words to bring hope, not despair. And I want my words to be filled with light that penetrated darkness, truth that obliterates lies, and trust that leaves no room for fear.”
― Jessica Glasner, The Adventure: A Seabirds-Themed Daily-Devotional

“You can do whatever you’re doing with your life; but once you forget there’s a God, you are on your own. -MillYentei D.Y.”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“A man must wage war on himself to defeat his weaknesses and conquer his strengths”
― Dennis Adonis III

“You have the power to create the life you want. It all starts with a decision to change.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

“I will stop your nightmares. For I will be the final storm to rock this keep.”
― E.J. Mellow, Song of the Forever Rains

“Life is funny; but still sunny,
what’s a dream without money,
what’s love without a wonderful woman,
what’s happiness without truth,
I told her what’s a flow without you.
-MillYentei_D.L.Y”
― Deshawn Yeldell

“There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward -- or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exist in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal -- or can be.”
― Rachel Cusk

“Some people may not fully know this, but praying is also an amazing form of manifestation. In my opinion, it is the most powerful one.”
― Robin S. Baker, Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism

“Borrow money today and tomorrow, then repay it in your next life.”
― Aron Micko H.B

“Never underestimate the power of a dream and a solid business plan.”
― Jason Langella

“Read - and be curious.
And if somebody says to you: "Things are this way. You can´t change it." - don´t believe a word.”
― Cornelia Funke