Wundervolle Welt Quotes & Sayings

Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite. Teenager slang is awful, students no longer learn Latin, our children - not to mention our president - cannot put together a grammatical sentence. The whimsical poet Ogden Nash was at least half serious in his "Laments for a dying language":

Coin brassy words at will, debase the coinage;
We're in an if-you-cannot-lick-them-join age,
A slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse age,
Where usage overnight condones misusage.
Farewell, farewell to my beloved language,
Once English, now a vile orangutanguage. — Charles Yang

Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze. — Jessica Khoury

Imagine if you were asked by your country to be an ambassador to an enemy nation. You would probably have to learn a new language and adapt to some customs and cultural differences in order to be polite and accomplish your mission. As an ambassador you would not be able to isolate yourself from the enemy. To fulfill your mission, you would have to have contact and relate to them. — Rick Warren

But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain. — Odette Beane

The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer's breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. MOORE — James Fenimore Cooper

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded. — Mark Victor Hansen

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics. — Shia Labeouf

You have enough things to be afraid of. Love can't kill you. — Nicola Yoon

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. — Henry Suso

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. — Gustave Flaubert

Fair words never hurt the tongue. — George Chapman

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile. — Charles Frohman

In all our relationships each one of us builds an image about the other and these two images have relationship, not the human beings themselves ... The actual relationship between two human beings or between many human beings completely ends when there is the formation of images. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in all the different forms. If our beloved deity is Krishna, then while chanting the names of the Divine Mother, imagine that Krishna has come before us as Devi. We should not think that since we are chanting Devi's names, Krishna might not like it. These differences exist only in our world, not in His. — Mata Amritanandamayi