Language Quotes - Page 18

• Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Strong, Compassion

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• If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

  Dean Falk

  Brain, Evolution, Humans

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• There is the cause for pleasure and for pain:
  But music moves us, and we know not why?
  We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
  Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory!
  For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world,
  Like music！

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Memories, Inspiration

  "The Poetical Works of Miss Landon".

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• Invent a new language anyone can understand.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Creation

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

  Cullen Murphy

  Numbers, Next, Creation

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• How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

  Black Hawk

  Native American, Native Language, Looks

  Black Hawk, John B. Patterson (1836). “Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war”, p.97

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• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  Gail Godwin

  Dream, Mean, Follow Your Dreams

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love, but for something more than love. Their language ends with love; they don't know any way that is higher than love, and love does not satisfy. On the contrary, the more you love the more thirsty you become. At the fourth center of love, one feels a tremendous satisfaction only when energy starts moving to the fifth center.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Real, Life Changing

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• All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

  John D. Barrow

  God, Spiritual, Littles

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• The only true language in the world is a kiss.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Kissing, World

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• There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Disease, Causes

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• Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

  Russell Means

  Country, War, Men

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• The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, White Man, Years

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.336, Best Books on

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• We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live.

  Desmond Morris

  Fashion, Attitude, Clothes

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• My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

  Art Linkletter

  Philosophy, People, Golden

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• A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

  Dennis Ritchie

  Simplicity, Computer, Program

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• Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

  Richard P. Bland

  Funny, Strong, Farewell

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• The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

  Leon Uris

  Prayer, Men, Discipline

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• The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would learn to play the violin. Everybody seems to think that you should be able to turn on the faucet one day and out will come the novel. I think for most people it's just practice, practice, practice, that sense of just learning your instrument until - when you have an idea on the violin, you don't have to translate it into violin-speak anymore - the language is your own. It's not something you can think your way into, or outsmart. you've just got to do it.

  Kevin Canty

  Writing, Thinking, Practice

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• A thug only understands you when you speak his language

  Alexander Lukashenko

  Memorable, Thug, Speak

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• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

  Derrick Jensen

  Inspiring, Dream, Memories

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.2, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.

  John Green

  Reading, Writing, Ideas

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• To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  George Earle Buckle

  Success, Writing, Plain And Simple

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• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Simplicity, Intense

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• Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plain Language, Imagination

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