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“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.”

World Years Wells Done Lasts Language Strategy Corporate Corporate World

Author:Frank Luntz

“People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.”

People Wells Sometimes Feelings Speak Language Complaining Impatient

Author:Bernard Pivot

“Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.”

Wells America Speak Language Achievement Majors North America

Author:Dick Pound

“Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.”

Way Needs Wells Language Talent Policy Wall Attempting Quebec

Author:Dick Pound

“Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.”

Wells Film Language Boring Discussion Visuals

Author:Alan Rudolph

“Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.”

Writing Wells Seems Language

Author:Lisel Mueller

“I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.”

Wells I Can Country Play Used Hate Games Speak Language England Cricket English Language

Author:Kapil Dev

“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.”

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.”

Wells Language Support Economic Land Depends Factors Stations Site Arrivals Emigration

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.”

Wells Form Language Cost Labor Foundation Gentleman Scholar Indispensable Pedants

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”

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“From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.”

World Wells Children Language Fields England Folks Deeper Wit Spokes Farms New World Drank New England Wit And Wisdom

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems