Language Quotes
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I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.
Juanes -
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?
William Lloyd Garrison
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Like my aunt, alexithymics substitute the language of action for that of emotion. When asked, “How would you feel if you saw a truck coming at you at eighty miles per hour?” most people would say, “I’d be terrified” or “I’d be frozen with fear.” An alexithymic might reply, “How would I feel? I don’t know. . . . I’d get out of the way.”18 They tend to register emotions as physical problems rather than as signals that something deserves their attention. Instead of feeling angry or sad, they experience muscle pain, bowel irregularities, or other symptoms for which no cause can be found. About three quarters of patients with anorexia nervosa, and more than half of all patients with bulimia, are bewildered by their emotional feelings and have great difficulty describing them.19 When researchers showed pictures of angry or distressed faces to people with alexithymia, they could not figure out what those people were feeling.
Bessel van der Kolk -
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Confucius -
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
Erol Alkan -
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
Vladimir Nabokov -
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
Jack Gilbert
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If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
Paul Craig Roberts -
The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
U.G. Krishnamurti -
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
Ha Jin -
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.
Judith Butler -
If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.
Saddam Hussein
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God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
Francis Asbury -
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
Vladimir Putin -
The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
Russell Baker -
Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.
Tariq Ramadan
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Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
Eugene Ionesco -
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare -
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
Lewis Hine -
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
Sebastiao Salgado