Respecting Mother Tongue Quotes & Sayings

Those people were pushing life and night and day in front of them. Life hides everything from people. Their own noise prevents them from hearing anything else. They couldn't care less. The bigger and taller the city, the less they care. Take it from me. I've tried. It's a waste of time. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Believe you can and you will. — Debasish Mridha

Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good prose or the rhythm of a good story. Desire to share an experience which one feels is valuable and ought not to be missed. The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc. Above the level of a railway guide, no book is quite free from aesthetic considerations. — George Orwell

By pumping up hyper-partisanship, our country (America) is playing with forces that can easily get out of control. We are giving purpose and cover - and sometimes a sense of purpose - to the crazy among us. We are encouraging a culture of extremism — John Avlon

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything. — John Lydon

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds. — Oswald Chambers

The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights. — Julia Ormond

Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been training. The one that lives every second at a time. That sits down and sees their life again and goes over it. Looks at the texture and details. — Natalie Goldberg

Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission. — Bill Jensen

Our lives teach us who we are. I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead. — Salman Rushdie

God blesses to the degree in which you believe. — Pamela R. Jeffers