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A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
— Sophia Amoruso
Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.
— Malcolm Bradbury
The paradox of writing is that you're trying to use words to express what words can't express.
— Stephen Fischer
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
— Rebecca Solnit
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
— Julian Jaynes
In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,
— Ashwin Sanghi
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
— Gregory Maguire
Words are not for hurting. They can either make or break a person ... so use them carefully.
— Timothy Pina
No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.
— Jane Fonda
When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.
— Austin Sarat
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.
— Charles Spurgeon
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
— Eckhart Tolle
I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
— Anthony Kiedis
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
— Michael Polanyi
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
— Andre Maurois
So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. — Peter Ackroyd
Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.
— Tony Robbins
Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life.
— George A. Smith
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
— Rick Warren
TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely
— Fela Durotoye
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
— G.K. Chesterton
He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.
— David Halberstam
...the people arrogant enough to use the words 'I understand' are the ones who can't possibly understand.
— David Arnold
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others
— Peter Abelard
It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.
— William E. Gladstone
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
— Alfred Korzybski
Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.
— Caitlin R. Kiernan
A laxity pervades the popular use of words.
— Charles Lamb
All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.
— William J. Clinton
If we want to be compassionate we must be conscious of the words we use. We must both speak and listen from the heart.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
We have our share of accidents at nap time. However, the one thing we never do is shame the child, or use blaming words.
— Jean Parker
As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
— Samuel Johnson
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
— Rick Warren
I think the rules of our truce prohibit the use of words like 'squeeze.' That's an automatic foul.
— Eve Jagger
Zane sighed. "I was so hoping this would be a normal vacation."Ty smacked him on the side of the head. "Don't use bad words. — Abigail Roux
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
— John Drinkwater
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
— Hippocrates
PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
— Samuel Johnson
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
— Jamey Johnson
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.
— John Patrick Hickey
Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts."~Leo to Merripen — Lisa Kleypas
You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.
— Archibald Marwizi
Wisely selecting the words we use to describe the experiences in and of our lives can make us feel better thus impacting our decisions and actions.
— Maddy Malhotra
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
— Denise Fleming
Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.
— Debasish Mridha
The words you use can influence your life. Positive words are well spring of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.
— Frank Luntz
I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
— Virginia Woolf
The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.
— John Locke
Words are powerful.The words you use and think of, may have impact on your life.
May you enrich your life with positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita
There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.
— Lauren Kate
You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile.
— Maxine Powell
