#word

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love. ↗

— Daphne Rose Kingma

#words #change

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#words #change

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and few people see the Bible as a true training manual. ↗

— Gary North

#christ #commander #few #few people #his

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth. ↗

— David Reuben

#being #being done #business #contracts #dollars

The play is not in the words, it's in you! ↗

— Stella Adler

#words #you

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#how #i #i feel #know #one word

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#been #believer #discovered #early #early age

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating ↗