Language Quotes

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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to… — Thomas Paine
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center… — Corrie Ten Boom
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. — Tim Ferriss
I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad. — Ben Hogan
Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. — Eugene Delacroix
Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was… — Alexander MacLaren
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the… — Dwight L. Moody
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's… — Michel Foucault
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. — Doug Larson
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of… — Salman Rushdie
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by… — Martin Chemnitz
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack… — June Jordan
Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment. — Richard Rodriguez
Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose. — Bruce Springsteen
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
When the enemy's envoy's speak in humble terms, but continues his preparations, he will advance. When their language is deceptive but the enemy pretentiously advances,… — Sun Tzu

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