Habits Quote by Grenville Kleiser

“The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language…

— Grenville Kleiser

“A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.”

— Mark Twain

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

“Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the…

— Edith Wharton

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the…

— Sri Aurobindo

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.”

— Yi

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“humans live in a world where it’s words and not deeds that have power, where the ultimate skill is mastery of language.”

— Muriel Barbery