Language

“If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.”

“لغتنا للأسف لا تزال بدوية تلتزم الخيام، وتقنع بالعيش في الوبر، وتحلم بالغيبيات.”

“We are talking to ourselves as we must and if we are overheard in America, or England, so much the better.”

“It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category-mistake.”

“As a translated religion, Christianity through history became a force for translation.”

“Language is a nation’s soul and life, while history is its consciousness and memory.”

“Arctic sovereignty means having the ability to exercise one’s culture based upon the many characteristics that define a people, such as your language, your traditions, values, history, geography.”

“Nu noi suntem stăpânii limbii, ci limba e stăpâna noastră.”

“Todo poema, toda poesía son pequeñas islas en el océano infinito del silencio.”

“‘Ecclesia’ is the only perfectly colourless word within our reach.”

“People who spoke a unitary language have one heart and a common soul. As such, they constitute one nation, and so they have to have a unified state.”

“要想精通语言，不懂点历史、懂点地理、懂点戏剧，一句话，没有丰富的知识是不行的。”

“The preservation of language is the cornerstone of a culture’s survival.”

“La palabra escrita en un poema, no sólo pesa, es insustituible.”

“レディース アンド ジェントルマン アンド お父つさん アンド お母かさん、お今晩は、トニー・谷ざんす”

“Quran is the great school for performance and good and clear pronunciation.”

“The Psalms are my prayer book and trained me in the vocabulary and the rhythm of attentive responsiveness to God.”

“I favour a direct style to convey messages that speak to everyone.”

“Ich wollte am liebsten alles in einem Satz sagen, nicht in zwanzig.”

“Praise be to God who taught with the pen and honored it with the oath, and wrote what He decreed and apportioned.”