English is, in other words,an alternative vehicle for introducing indigenous ideas, but if only a conscious cross-cultural filtration is considered.
Tsehaye Hailemariam
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KRISTAN HIGGINS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY People tell me that i am African, didn't science say that we all come from Africa?
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM It is when you are able to see many things far off
that you can heal the wounds of the past
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Respect comes not from respecting to one another, but from knowing our differences.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Eyes are given only to those who can not see with their hearts.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Promises and memories
are the only heaviest weights
that has ever carried by man.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Nothing is permanent; the only permanent thing we have is movement.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM To me, staying in Europe is a journey of self discovery. A never ending journey, which perhaps, one ...
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM All my feelings belong to nobody,
But themselves.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Man, being mindful should have a secular civilization.
Wisdom and knowledge as goods to his mind; an...
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
NANCY PEARCEY An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron...
G.K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron...
G. K. CHESTERTON An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wron...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
JOSH BILLINGS Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
PHILIP GUEDALLA Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
PHILIP GUEDALLA In any case, seeing care for certain groups as an excessive cost reflects an arguably perverse way o...
JULIE GUTHMAN An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly c...
G. K. CHESTERTON Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of t...
PRINCE OF WALES CHARLES If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of t...
PRINCE CHARLES Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
HENRY KISSINGER Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER An English professor announced to the class; "There are two words I don't allow in my class. One is ...
UNKNOWN Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...
CLARICE LISPECTOR Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning...
ABHIJIT NASKAR About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.
G.K CHESTERTON X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling ...
AMBROSE BIERCE Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical c...
MALCOLM FRASER Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person...
JENNIFER FRICK-RUPPERT The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himsel...
PAUL WEYRICH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...
NEIL GAIMAN The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... It was a cultural accident. Not conscious process.
ARNOLD HIRSCH English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty th...
XIAOLU GUO The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi.
ANONYMOUS The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi.
BILL GULLICKSON My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs ...
JOHN LOCKE Ideas can turn maximum success if only we can take time & imagination to cross the T's & dot the i's
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheis...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG She looks like a million dollars but she only knows a hundred and twenty words and she's only got tw...
ERIC LINKLATER Don’t let the enemy try to keep you bound with fear. The devil is a liar. Stay in faith and trust ...
GERMANY KENT It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are...
HAROLD S. GENEEN What is the alternative? ... There is no alternative. The only alternative you can give is stalemate...
DAVID LEVY I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new word...
ADAM MANSBACH In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, lin...
LEO TOLSTOY Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY Feast of Matthias the Apostle If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold go...
T. R. GLOVER We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the s...
JOHN LOCKE I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON A fatwa is a religious edict. Such edicts bind only those who seek to follow the Imam issuing them b...
MAAJID NAWAZ Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But...
IMRAN KHAN The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musicia...
DAMON ALBARN By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, En...
MAX BEERBOHM How sad it will be if in three or four centuries all that is spoken in the world is English, Hindi, ...
PAUL COX I'm a snacker, but also health-conscious. I thought there had to be an alternative to what was o...
KEITH BELLING Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues...
GEORGE TAKEI I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, prom...
HAROLD S. GENEEN Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step ...
NADIA HASHIMI In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
CHAIM POTOK For Atlanta, it is a large city but in some cases has lacked the cultural amenities. Having this new...
DANIEL CONNOLLY Kim Il Sung University should set an example for all other universities of the country to follow in ...
KIM JONG-UN The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We inv...
TOM SHADYAC Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee...
MICHAEL J. GELB The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
JEREMY PAXMAN The Hebrew original does not say, ‘Do not kill.’ It says, ‘Do not murder.’ Both Hebrew and E...
DENNIS PRAGER If he can't go in the hole and throw, then he'll know (surgery is) the only alternative.
JIM BOWDEN Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other ...
BRIAN ENO