Noah Webster Quotes

A national language is a band of national union.

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• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Moving

• I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Childhood
  • Denial

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Answer

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Very

• There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • God
  • Day
  • Cold

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Listen

• If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Made
  • Three
  • Facebook

• It's definitely the development that has changed the way Montenegro is seen in the eyes of the world.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Development

• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Memorable

• 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 communicates, but also analyzes nature, notices or neglects types of relationship and phenomena, channels his reasoning, and builds the house of his consciousness.

  

  Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • Relationship
  • Language
  • Personality

• To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Language
  • Typography
  • Limiting

• Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Killing
  • Self-Sacrifice
  • Potent

• A national language is a band of national union.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Language
  • Union
  • National