Common Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We always may be what we might have been.

— Adelaide Anne Procter

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

— Kami Garcia

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

— William Butler Yeats

It's not what we were, it's what we could have been.

— Saudia Dakota Smith

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

— Diane di Prima

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. "I

— Ayn Rand

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

— Raymond Carver

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

— Lisa Kleypas

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

— Hugh Prather

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those…

— Audre Lorde

Words are all we have.

— Samuel Beckett

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief,…

— Jodi Picoult