Tom Sawyer Dialect Quotes & Sayings

The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with the amount of vocabulary and the complexity of grammatical rules which the user must keep in mind. Economy of notation is therefore important. — Kenneth E. Iverson

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time. — Drew Barrymore

If you want to program conservatively, you need to live with the labels. Be proud and stand up for your beliefs! — Steve Yegge

Jesus of Nazareth was a real man, living and dying at a turbulent moment in real space-time history. His message, and the message about him that the early Christians called good news, was not about how to escape that world. It was about how the one true God was changing it, radically and forever. — N. T. Wright

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year. — Brian Skerry

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments ... — Thomas Paine

Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator. — Elliott Abrams

Even when the divorce papers had come in the mail, even when he'd finally signed them, he'd still felt married, still felt as if he had to be faithful to those vows even though they were empty and meaningless now. Perhaps that was just because he was afraid of moving past those vows, afraid of starting over. So now he looked straight into the eyes of that fear. The fear of being hurt again. The fear of not being worthy of a woman's love. The fear of failure. — Ann H. Gabhart

Time doesn't heal wounds; it only watches them take different
shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came
from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds
comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to
the deep places and bring healing. — Robert Whitlow

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan. — Honore De Balzac

I have said that Mr. Trump's language is divisive. — Jeb Bush

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired. — David Levithan