Their Language Quotes
49 quotes by 48 authors
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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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In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love,…
— Rajneesh
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At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
— Nana Mouskouri
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how…
— Natalie Cole
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The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is…
— Gerard Way
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To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out…
— Heinrich Heine
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I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called…
— Heinrich Himmler
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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the…
— Franz Rosenzweig
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In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process…
— Seth Lloyd
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We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.
— Gerard Houllier
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English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so…
— Paul Scott
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What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
— Irene Nemirovsky
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Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the…
— Spencer Wells
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Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what…
— David Crystal
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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any…
— Franz Liszt
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Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films…
— Connie Nielsen
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