523 Quotes About English
- Author K.A.Z_Violin
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It seems like we ever met," said Oriash, and his words make the kids fell silent. "Ever ... and so far away from this time. I ever knew you!" he continued more seriously.
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- Author Tracy Letts
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BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!-BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot!BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!-BARBARA: Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rose in on!
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- Author Munindra Misra
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कंदर्प अगणित अमित छवी नव नील नीरज सुन्दरम।पट्पीत मानहु तडित रूचि शुचि नौमी जनक सुतावरम॥To Sri Ram, whose beauty is incomparable, I am bowing,His body like a newly formed dense blue cloud I am seeing,His shining yellow robes over his body are like lightening,He is the consort of Janak’s daughter his beauty is gleaming.
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- Author Namsoon Kang
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Theologians are to look to the _beyond_-community–– _beyond_ nationality; skin-color, gender; sexual orientation, citizenship, religious affiliation––because God, the Divine, who is the primary frame of reference for theologians, is for, with, in, among those individual human beings. It is to reaffirm the sheer truth: No one is better or worse, superior or inferior than any other; and, 'Ich bin du, wenn Ich Ich bin' [I am you, when Iam I.]
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- Author Henry Noel Brailsford
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The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine}
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- Author Honoré de Balzac
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The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations. England seems determined to see the entire world bored just as she is, and just as bored as she.
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- Author Jenny Lawson
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No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I was overreacting, and the "fingeral" wasn't even a real word. Then I told him that I though he was underreacting, probably because he's embarrassed that he doesn't know how Latin works. Then he claimed that "underrecating" isn't a word either. The man has a terrible bedside manner.
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- Author Jonathan Culver
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The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..
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