One Language Quotes
58 quotes by 54 authors
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
— John le Carre
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As humans we speak one language...
— Avril Lavigne
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There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people…
— Art Linkletter
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In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has…
— Susan Sontag
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
— Buck Henry
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
— Ezra Pound
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal…
— Gaston Bachelard
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As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A…
— Pablo Picasso
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Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency,…
— David Starkey
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It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
— Mark Pagel
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You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.
— Frank Smith
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
— Bjarne Stroustrup
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We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might…
— Don DeLillo
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I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.
— Wladimir Klitschko
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If God had so wished, he could have made all Indians speak one language... the unity of India has been and shall always be a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose…
— Nelson Mandela
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Empathy is even better than talking in one language
— Rumi
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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it…
— Robert Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These One Language Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 58 One Language Quotes, led by these top contributors: