Language Quotes - Page 14

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

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

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

I want to start where language ends.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Music is the language of the heart without words.

As was his language so was his life.