Quotes of: Foreign-languages Keyword

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Bayard Rustin

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Conrad Black

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

Harold MacMillan

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

Jack Nicholson

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

Lee Myung-bak

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Marguerite Duras

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

Alexandra Fuller

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Eugene Jarecki

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

Time

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

Stephen Kinzer

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

Fritz Sauckel

You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

When denial is in play, a person simply refuses to recognize the truth, no matter how apparent.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World