Quotes of: Common-language Keyword

You cannot give what you don't have; you must be truly saved to preach the gospel.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

We kept gazing into each other’s eyes, rest was history, we kept talking in body language.

Just the Way I Feel

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

The Kills

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

The Language of Flowers

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.

A Language Older Than Words

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

I wish someone would look at me the same way I look at chocolate cake

Tongues of Men and Angels: The Religious Language of Pentecostalism

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

Rene Daumal

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion.

Rene Daumal

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

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

Stephen Greenblatt