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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan
Government Words Language Most Terrifying Help English English Language Here
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. Winston Churchill
Bit Always Saint Patrick's Day Odd Irish Refuse English Found
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. Larry Flynt
Love Friendship You True Friend Words Love And Friendship Would Entire Vocabulary Fingers Count True Most Misused Hand Friend Trying Die Any Them English Start Two Need
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. Theodore Roosevelt
Learning Country Every Immigrant Learn Within Leave Years Five Required Should English Who Here
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? George Carlin
Language Could Longest Am Sentence Shortest English English Language
In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it. Juan Pablo Galavis
Life Love You Become Say Take Feel Know Force How Falling Falling In Love Goes Just Being Love You Pace Being In Love English
If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You People Language Will Argument Aggressive Say Touch More Could Know Welcomed Make Accept Gentle How Than Influence Want Them Much Use Your English English Language Suggestions
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. George Bernard Shaw
Communism Socialism Better Only Same English
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Day Beer Man Walk Will Summer Steadily Ten Invented He Road Hot Soon Along Discover Dusty Miles English Why
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry James
Beautiful Me Words Most Beautiful Language Summer Those Most Beautiful Words Always Been Afternoon English English Language Two
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig
Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. Mahatma Gandhi
Sense France Arabs French Same England English Palestine Belongs
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths. Sonia Sotomayor
Adversity Speak Financial Simple Parents Difficulty Constraint Until Reveal Limited Tested Tap Unexpected Whether Themselves English Who Uses Illness Serious Hardship Strengths
Do you know what 'meteorologist' means in English? It means liar. Lewis Black
You Liar Do You Know Know Meteorologist Means English
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. Louis D. Brandeis
Mother Language Important Clothes Manners Medium Way Immigrant Superficial Adopt Prevailing More Generally He Mother Tongue His Itself Common Substitutes Manifestation Customs Far English English Language Here Tongue Presented Speech
There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody. Carlos Santana
You Heart Sometimes Language Nothing Faster Everything Once Way Immediately Melody Find Because Than Gets Any Spanish Then English Connect
I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head. David Morse
Teacher Time Day Me Class First Hid One Day Out Borrowed About Student Head Announced Baker Talk She Call Read Terrified Were Loud Very Grade Going Want Eighth Eighth Grade English English Teacher Play Mediocre
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
Property Language Imagination Nobody Itself Special English English Language
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. Frances McDormand
You Word Language Parents Lose Spouse Left Child Place Your English English Language Orphan Widow Position
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social. Angela Ahrendts
Generation Speak World Digital Digital World Physical Physical World Up Grew Social Next Next Generation English Growing Growing Up
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time. Carlos Santana
Music Time Language Pure Long Long Time Other Melody More Outside Long Time Ago Clearly Instrumental Lot Yiddish Than Goes Any Realised Spanish Speaks English
Donald Trump is not a 71-year-old white man. He is an Indian uncle. He wears suits that don't fit; he can't speak English properly. He works with his idiotic sons; he hates women but loves his daughter. He makes up words when he gets angry. He is an Indian uncle. Hasan Minhaj
Angry Man Women Words Speak Suits Daughter Uncle White Indian Hates Wears Properly He Sons Makes Idiotic His Trump Fit Up Donald Donald Trump Gets Loves English Works
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Election Free Think Members Only Parliament English
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. Maxim Gorky
Beautiful Words Most Beautiful Language Guilty Most Beautiful Words Not Guilty English English Language
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde
Society Would Would-Be Only Civilized Could Talk How Irish Listen Quite Teach English Here
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. Richard Lederer
Good History Language Way Latin Critical Critical Mass Vocabulary More Caesar Mass Most Because Makes Julius Julius Caesar Than Certain English English Language Universal Universal Language
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