One Language Quotes

58 quotes by 54 authors

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. — John le Carre
As humans we speak one language... — Avril Lavigne
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
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
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
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound
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
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
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
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
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. — Mark Pagel
You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language. — Frank Smith
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language. — Bjarne Stroustrup
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
I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. — Wladimir Klitschko
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
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
Empathy is even better than talking in one language — Rumi
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

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