Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.