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Language Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin
- Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are…
- I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet…
- This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by…
- Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
- Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.
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- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot