“ Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions. Stephen Lovegrove
“ Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we’ve seen, touched, loved, lost. And it… Alena Graedon
“ Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You unders… Cherie Priest
“ I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben. Kiersten White
“ Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to k… Lauren Oliver
“ Never let the words of discouragement from others sway you away from reaching far with your dreams. Israelmore Ayivor
“ I often feel an aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over – at the same expressions, phrases, and metaphors repeated. And the worst is, when I listen to myself I have t… Pascal Mercier
“ Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language ou… Pascal Mercier
“ I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home. Mahmoud Darwish
“ Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words. Thomm Quackenbush
“ Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. Lenore Kandel
“ If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words. Thomm Quackenbush
“ It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark. Charles M. Blow
“ The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
“ Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones. Thiruvalluvar
“ Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect. Thiruvalluvar
“ You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else… Lily King
