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Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Experience is always larger than language.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Fashion is an instant language.

Fashion is instant language.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

Finality is not the language of politics.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.