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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
VLADIMIR PUTIN

Civilization Force Language Path Politics
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.
STEPHENIE MEYER

Betrayal Concept Language Loyalty Meaning Myself Origin Planet Soul
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY

Language Material Surround Weave Work Writing
Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.
STEVIE WONDER

Language Music Understand World
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul’s language.
FULTON J. SHEEN

Beginning Face God Language Listening Prayer Silence Soul Talk Truth
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
IVAN TURGENEV

Country Day Doubt Fate Freedom Language Myself
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Analog Animal Appear Human Language Phenomenon Significance Unique World
I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
ADRIENNE RICH

Androgyne Child Children Dead Describe Infinite Language Living Lost Mind Name Newborn Noun Surviving Verb
It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Art Audience Beyond Could Country Language Practical Reach Revelation Sense Still Write
I strip. In low light. In the silence of my room. I strip like an act of confession. Unclothing my meticulous mind and teasing language from the vestry of my soul.
GEMMA IVERSEN

Act Confession Language Light Mindset Myself Room Silence Soul Teasing
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON

Day Language Philosophy
Through poems, I speak the language of my soul and the emotions of my body onto paper.
JEN HOLLY

Body Emotion Language Myself Poem Soul
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
ADRIENNE RICH

Concentration Language ower Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe
In fact, many of the quotes in my books are quotes which were translated from English and that I read already translated into Spanish.
AGUSTIN FERNANDEZ MALLO

Book English Important Language Many Quote Spanish Translated Worldview
My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
SZA

Herself Home Ideas Language Mom Myself
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Compare Diamond Language Poverty Stars
By stretching language we’ll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
JEAN GENET

Hide Language Ourselves Stretch Wrap
You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Another Country Language Many Only Operate Person
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
GASTON BACHELARD

Beautiful Born Existence Kind Language Special
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Different Kind Language Price Submission World
Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
ANTOINE LAVOISIER

Chemistry Element Employment Improvement Language Myself Prevent Transformation
The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Kind Language Man Strong Unity
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”
NGUGI WA THIONG'O

Being Country Even Keep Language Prison Put Say Write
It is very important that adults talk to children about what is happening in a way that they can understand, using simple and age-appropriate language.
LIONEL MESSI

Adult Appropriate Children Happen Impostant Language Understand
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Killing Language War
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Act Language Man Philosophy

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