Power Of Words Quotes (page 3)

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• words
• powerful
• achievement

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. Joseph Conrad

• moving
• dark
• light

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. Madeleine L'Engle

• tough
• emotional
• power

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle

• life
• world
• death

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. Joel Osteen

• powerful
• together
• great

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. Josh Billings

• broken
• powerful
• power

Words were no longer simply words, but a curious codes of silence, a way of speaking that continually moved around the thing that was being said. As long as we avoided the real subject, the spell would not broken. We both slipped naturally into this kind of banter, and it became all the more powerful because neither of us abandoned the character. We knew what we were doing, but at the same time we pretended not to. Thus my courtship of Sophie began - slowly, decorously, building by the... Paul Auster

• power words
• men
• happy

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions. Sigmund Freud

• power
• images
• you me

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. Amy Tan

• today
• words
• power

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. Sigmund Freud

• dumb
• power
• powerful

Words have power, you dumb piece of shit. Demetri Martin

• power
• words
• power words

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy

• reality
• power words
• power

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. Edgar Allan Poe

• powerful
• power
• words

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling

• pain
• respect
• power words

Oprah, for instance, still can't get past the n-word issue (or the nigga issue, with all apologies to Ms. Winfrey). I can respect her position. To her, it's a matter of acknowledging the deep and painful history of the word. To me, it's just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. "Nigga" becomes "porch monkey" becomes "coon" and so on if that's what in a person's heart. The key is to change the... Jay-Z

• words
• powerful
• understanding

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy