A Quotes
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“A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.”
“A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“A language is everything you do.”
Source: The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle
“A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.”
“A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.”
“A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them”
Source: An Anthology
“A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.”
“A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It's even a toothpick.”
“A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.”
“A language Older Than Words”
Source: A Language Older Than Words
“A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.”
Source: No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
“A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.”
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”
“A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do”
“A language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.”
Source: The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity
“A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.”
“A languid janitor bears
His lantern through colonnades
And the architecture swoons.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“A Lannister always pays his debts.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“A lantern can give you light only when you light it”
“a laotong relationship is made by choice...when we first looked in each other's eyes in the palanquin I felt something special pass between us--like a spark to start a fire or a seed to grow rice. But a single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love--true-heart love--must grow.”
“A Laptop in One Room
The corners I turned became a city,
While remembering the sidewalks.
Each street I crossed turned into art,
For poets past than turned lines upside down.
Horizons in blue and grey
Became a shallow water's sight.”
Source: The Willow Song
“A laptop is a good example of what this universe is all about. When it is folded, it is nothing. There is no movement and no visuals. When you unfold it, two parts emerge: the keyboard part and the screen part.
The screen part is the outer world or the Existence. That is where your body exists. The keyboard part is inner world or the non-Existence. That is where your soul (non-)exists. A soul often gets so attached to the visuals on screen that it forgets about the keyboard or the inner world.”
“A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windows the deep bass of the radio, and the nasty words of a hateful song.It seemed like so much of modern music, a din to drive human beings mad.”
Source: Merrick
“A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.”
“A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.”
Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“A large body of people, sufficient to make a nation, have come to the conclusion that they will have a government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '76 behind us, who can deny them the right? ... I maintain on the principles of '76 that Abraham Lincoln has no right to a soldier in Fort Sumter. ... You can never make such a war popular. ... The North never will endorse such a war.”
“A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.”
“A large chunk of the human species is sufficiently intelligent but insufficiently humble.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“A large chunk of the shuttle's wrecked fuselage sparked and disconnected with a wheezing raspberry. Lis and Palaxa stared at the fizzing rubble and caught each other's eye. Both burst into peals of laughter.”
Source: Canellian Eye : Prophecy
“A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.”
Source: Selected essays
“A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries.”
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.”
Source: The grapes of wrath: text and criticism
“A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.”
“A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.”
“A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All of us occupied the same space, the men behind the desk no less than those about to be questioned. What distinguished each of us was only our inner attitude.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“A large heart can be filled with very little.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“A large Japanese fleet has been contacted. They are fifteen miles away and headed in our direction. They are believed to have four battleships, eight cruisers, and a number of destroyers. This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”
“A large lantern appeared in one of Charun's hands. It glowed, illuminating him, me, and the immediate area. I saw him all the better for it, a tall rangy man, dressed in black jeans and a black and red plaid western shirt. He also wore snakeskin cowboy boots. Never had I imagined Charun, the Ferryman of the River Styx, dressed like that. He should be riding off into the sunset; not ferrying souls to the Elysian Fields.”
Source: How the Vortex Changed My Life
“A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.”
“A large main room, with a small, shut door in the back. Floor-to-ceiling shelves lined the walls, crammed with bric-a-brac; books, shells, dolls, herbs, pottery, shoes, crystals, more books, jewels... From the ceiling and wood rafters hung all manner of chains, dead birds, dresses, ribbons, gnarled bits of wood, strands of pearls...
A junk shop- of some immortal horder.
And that hoarder...
In the gloom of the cottage, there sat a large spinning wheel, cracked and dulled with age.
And before that ancient spinning wheel, her back to me, sat the Weaver.
Her thick hair was of richest onyx, tumbling down to her slender waist as she worked the wheel, snow-white hands feeding and pulling the thread around a thorn-sharp spindle.
She looked young- her grey gown simple but elegant, sparkling faintly in the dim forest light through the windows as she sang in a voice of glittering gold.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“A large mango tree shaded the eastern corner of the house from the sharp morning sun, its long, leafy branches swaying over the old, red, clay-tiled roof. The smell of wood and camphor hung in the air.”
Source: Priyamvada & Co.
“A large movement covers a small movement”
“A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.”
“A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.”
Source: Other Worlds: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun
“A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.”
“A large number of people had already gathered in the city centre to demonstrate against the government. Seemingly it had occurred to no-one to opt for the most obvious solution – stormtroopers.”
Source: Er ist wieder da
“A large number of people thinks of being positive rather than being positive”