1596 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. Christian Louboutin

You Walk Language Shoes Design Way Only Part Dictated Shoe Going Quite Move Body Body Language Your Your Body

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. Cesar Chavez

Character Reflection Language Our Ourselves Exact Speakers Growth

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. Greg Boyle

Success You Behavior Language Valuable Those Recognized Bad Bad Behavior Wounded Vocabulary Kinship Something More Bear Badly Until Likely Least Than Behaved Burdens Succeed Succeeded Success Is Stand Whose Deeply Belligerent

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues. John Wycliffe

Faith Knowledge People Language Ought Our Ghost Since Doctrines Understand End Familiar Scriptures Them Holy Holy Ghost Should Believers Tongues

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Battle Intelligence Language Our Philosophy Against Means

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

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. Yo-Yo Ma

Life Music You Language Own Every Heritage Adaptive Changes Everybody Type Life Changes More Individual Open Learn Around How Begin Different Rhythm Realize Us Different Type

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Zadie Smith

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need. Russell M. Nelson

Death Adversity Suffering Doctor Frustration Remember Language Face Seen Parents Young Fatigue Those Plight Striving Students Studies Also Sorrow Learn Known Felt Foreign Foreign Language Overwhelmed Children Dying Much Medical Recall Need

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

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Abraham Maslow

Thoughts Communication Human Being Sometimes Behavior Language Defense Way Hiding Preventing Concealing Motives Human Being Your

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer

Language Leader Visionary Must Idealist Talk Practical Realist

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something. Eugene H. Peterson

Bible People Language First Lose Nothing Difficult Everything Way Something Written Spoken Academic Most Make Terribly Least Were Oral Common Common Language Illiterate Technical Street Receive

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. Haile Selassie

Religion Man Peace Rights Language Sex Human Rights United Nations Assurance Settlement States Distinction Security Charter Noblest Between Freedoms Safeguarding Force Without Human Nations Race Aspirations International International Peace Expresses United Fundamental Disputes

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along. Mary Oliver

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Radhanath Swami

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

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich

Alone Loneliness Solitude Word Language Pain Our Sides Wisely Glory Being Sensed Being Alone Created Express Two

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