Language Quote by Chinua Achebe

My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its…

— Thomas a Kempis

“What comes out of our hearts through the words of our mouths determines what comes to pass in our lives. It’s the absolute truth.”

— Kenneth Copeland

To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise…

— Fred D'Aguiar

Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And…

— Gena Showalter

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

— Paula Malcomson

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always…

— Chinua Achebe

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

— Chinua Achebe

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

— Kory Stamper

“They mean people who speak English and believe in small government, whether in San Francisco, Sligo, or Singapore.”

— Daniel Hannan

“I understand why sometimes people speak in cliches because sometimes there is no other way to describe something.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“People who can speak well, speak briefly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak up we…

— Vivek Murthy