Language Quote by Paul Celan

“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. But…

— Paul Celan

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

— Aldous Huxley

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of…

— Aldous Huxley

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of…

— John Dewey

The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees, resign'd, a…

— Mary Wortley Montagu

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.

— Vincent Gallo

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that…

— Marianne Williamson

...the plan will happen in spite of us, not because of us.

— Melody Beattie

If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has…

— Kirk Douglas

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in…

— Anonymous

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite…

— William Shakespeare