Power of words - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words. — Marty Rubin

Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could. — Richelle Mead The Ruby Circle

She clung desperately to the words that had saved her life. — Markus Zusak The Book Thief

She soon says, You're my best friend, Ed. I know. You can kill a man with those words. — Markus Zusak I Am the...

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 scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them? — Mark Dunn Under the Harrow

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. — Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's...

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.

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 feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only...

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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