Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. — Phil Borges
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most. — Kristin Cavallari
Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student of my wife… — Gary Chapman
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me and the minute… — Nawal El Saadawi
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, — David Crystal
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in… — Eben Alexander
The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you… — Joe Armstrong
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. — Kris Carr
It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. Now 30 years on The Body Shop is a multi… — Anita Roddick
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining — Bjarne Stroustrup
Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to… — Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt… — Michel Onfray
Human pride and egoism always create divisions, build walls of indifference, hate and violence. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts capable of… — Pope Benedict XVI
There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow… — Rumi
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal
We can think of descriptions almost as computer languages, an operative description that only deals with very simple operations. Its code is sex - Male,… — Frederick Lenz
It is time for dead languages to be quiet. — Natalie Clifford Barney
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo

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