Monolingual Countries Quotes & Sayings

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! — Paul Laurence Dunbar

You won't trick me that easily into drinking your tea of concupiscence, Miss Ashby. — Tiffany Reisz

The hero's journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, 'Look, you're in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that's not been touched. So you're at home here? Well, there's not enough of you there.' And so it starts. — Joseph Campbell

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head. — Kevin Williams

... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why. — Michael Hyatt

Prayer is the communication between God and his people. — Euginia Herlihy

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination. — John Stuart Mill

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on. — Guy De Maupassant

There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that. — William Barclay

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual. — Nataly Kelly

I want to relearn the intervals, to
journey with a man among the thirds and fifths,
augumented, diminshed, with a light touch,
sforzando, rallentando, agitato, the usual
adores and dotes - and of course what I reaaly
want is some low notes. — Sharon Olds