Belief Quote by Adrienne Rich

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something -…

— Adrienne Rich

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and…

— Jane Goodall

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when…

— Claudia Rankine

For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my…

— Ingrid Bengis

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

— Jane Yolen

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact,…

— Theodore Dreiser

Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy,…

— Marlene Caroselli

“Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make you tremble…

— Ryū Murakami

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs,…

— Jason Mraz

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex.…

— Tom Wolfe

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

— Diane Ackerman