I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it's from the Latin word cor, meaning… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The language of the Veda itself is sruti, a rhythm not composed by the intellect but heard, a divine Word that same… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and… — Michael Dummett Copy Share Image
“The word "L♡VE" means absolutely nothing without the action behind it. You wanna know how to really empower someone? You don't have… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
English is my first language. When I learn a song in a new language, I break down the sounds phonetically and write… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many people are intimidated by doctors. ... People also feel stupid when they don't understand what a doctor's talking about the first… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“With any word, there are subconscious associations, which simply means that certain words make you think of certain things, even if you… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“In the modern world we are in a paradoxical situation; because although in theory man knows that he can extend his attention… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“Try telling the boy who’s just had his girlfriend’s name cut into his arm that there’s slippage between the signifier and the… — Todd Davis Copy Share Image
“hear this if you can: if you want to reach him you have to go beyond yourself and when you finally arrive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable.… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to use language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to see all the countries in the world and learn all the languages. I want to have thousands of friends… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“What art does is give us the refinement, all the shades of meaning, of emoting, that we don’t have language for. What… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Words... are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible, most unteachable of all things. Of course, you can catch them and sort them and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The real reason that language so often carries magic is because humans have trouble not ascribing special power to it. Language makes… — Peter Elbow Copy Share Image