Language Quotes

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Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment. — Holly Black
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what… — Desmond Tutu
Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think… — Akira Kurosawa
In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it.… — Garry Winogrand
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify… — Johannes Kepler
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who… — Ayn Rand
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at… — James Madison
The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. — Learned Hand
It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this… — Karl Popper
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words… — C. J. Mahaney
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a… — John C. Maxwell
Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match… — Andre Agassi
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see… — Richard Bach
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the… — Louis Nizer
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. — Chinua Achebe
The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. — Constantin Stanislavski

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