Best abuse & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.”

Men Courses Language Accepting Strange Abuse Lifetime Welcome Affected Interpersonal Interpersonal Relationship

Author:Karrine Steffans

“But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.”

May Reason Language Possibility Computer Abuse Leaving Capability Computer Language Perl

Author:Larry Wall

“The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.”

“To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.”

People Thinking Humans May Use Seems Individual Language Liberty Fit Abuse Good Things Someday Indispensable Thorough Use And Abuse

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!”

Giving Wells May Use Bigs Three Language Abuse Bother Cheer Swear Captains Emergencies Bad Language

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.”

Culture Language Abuse Rotten

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.”

Thinking Film Language Sex Violence Television Taste Abuse Presses Tolerance Mainstream Graphic

Author:Charlton Heston

“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”

Littles Long Hard Form Speak Language Easy Knowledge Mystery Ignorance Speech Abuse Mysterious Height Vague Mistaken Speculation Prescriptions Hindrance True Knowledge Deep Learning

Author:John Locke

“When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”

Shows Suffering Speak Language Silence Solutions Abuse Tricks Maintaining Speaks Out Cloaks Relieved Obscenity

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!”

“The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.”

Important Use Culture Language Difficult Written Drug Abuse Responsible Notion Connected Our Society Use Of Language

Author:Graham Hancock

“While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.”

Culture Language Differences Environment Abuse Impact Oppression Globes Similarity Language Culture

Author:Carre Otis

“Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.”

Giving Heart Character Language Break Serious Skills Abuse Credit Plus Fewer English Language 140 Character

Book:About That Night

Source: About That Night

“The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”

Want Language Term Common Effects Ambition Abuse Faults Simplicity American Language

Author:James F. Cooper

“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.”

Source: The rise and fall of the Confederate Government

“The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.”

Different Speak Language Community Violence Effects Abuse Colour Reaching Domestic Violence

Author:Sandra Pupatello

“I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.”

Love Language Laughing Abuse English Language Things I Love

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.”

People Ifs Jobs Language Justice Answers Poverty Cutting Cry Abuse Refuse Deeper Frustration Facility Riot Unheard Anger Frustration

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.”

Source: Stuart: A Life Backwards

“ich wachse mit einem Frauenbild auf das mir die Sprache verschlägt”

Language Fear Silence Violence Childhood Depression Abuse Mental Health Trauma

Book:Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte

Source: Zerreißprobe Menschwerdung: dringende Gedichte

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