We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting d...
BENJAMIN LEE WHORF We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting d...
BENJAMIN WHORF We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting...
BENJAMIN WHORF Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-b...
DAVID SHIELDS 'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. ...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid d...
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI ...our philosophy has preserved essential traits of animistic modes of thought such as the over-esti...
SIGMUND FREUD Nothing weakens a person's spirit as when someone speaks his native language.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Painting is by nature a luminous language.
ROBERT DELAUNAY Now Louisiana has been laid low by the violence of Mother Nature, ... We are grateful for your prese...
DAVID RABE Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.
JULIA GLASS Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN In the long run, one of the great threats to this country is its tendency to dissolve along the line...
PAT BUCHANAN People know two languages: their native language and gibberish.
MARIBEL C. PAGAN Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own str...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta...
CASEY MILLER Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is consta...
CASEY MILLER Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
BENJAMIN WHORF My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of la...
BENJAMIN WHORF Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
BENJAMIN WHORF Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
BENJAMIN WHORF But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning ...
BENJAMIN WHORF At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describ...
BENJAMIN WHORF Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
BENJAMIN WHORF To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If all the ruminations and ponderances were laid end to end along the equator, they would most likel...
ED SMITH Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.
SONIA JOHNSON It got down to about 20 degrees by 4 a.m., but judging by the amount of ice we laid down, it looks l...
GEORGE CASEY Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along part...
ALEC BALDWIN The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...
HERBERT READ Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.
CARRIE FISHER The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot...
AUSTIN ELLIOT Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along ...
ALEC BALDWIN In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AMMONS We laid down an ink trail to confuse the other runners.
KEVIN MCCORMICK The native plants are not only beautiful and hardy, they require less water. They also support our n...
CAROLYN PATTON We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're har...
NICK NOLTE We have a leader - Benjamin Netanyahu.
DANNY NAVEH Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through suc...
ALDO LEOPOLD We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.
ROBERT MOOR We had several feeder lines that were down (Sunday) morning.
SUSAN ALLEN The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
HOLLY BLACK You can't skate two lines against the Suns, so they came in and spelled our first two lines. They he...
DAVE PFEIFER It speaks a lot for our players that we kept our composure and didn't fold. In the past we would hav...
JENNY PFEIFFER We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests...
THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going ...
DARRELL ISSA Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.
ARISTOTLE Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
MARILYN MONROE Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It was just the worst kind of conditions that you could possibly ask for. The freezing rain building...
JAMES THOMPSON All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously in...
RUDOLF STEINER We were playing like we were down by 40 in the first half. Our body language was like we weren't goi...
CRYSTAL KEMP There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight l...
ANTONI GAUDI We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I could dissect a lot of things about this game, but that shot by Konare was huge.
BYRON SAMUELS Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
MARILYN MONROE Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
PETER R. GRANT Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the...
MARYA MANNES Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the...
MARYA MANNES Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the mo...
ABHIJIT NASKAR We released the fourth book at midnight and we also had a slumber party for the kids and parents at ...
CAROLINE BROWN You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out eve...
ADRIA ARJONA The flames laid down a little overnight.
CARRIE ATCHISON Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We know the inner call to lay down our lives for one another because He laid down His life for us. W...
C.J. MAHANEY At first we try really hard to teach them what blocking is, how to memorize lines. We try and teach ...
LINDA CARPENTER Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue ...
JONATHAN MAYHEW True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature whi...
HUGH BLAIR The fact of Native existence is that we live modern lives informed by traditional values and contemp...
THOMAS KING When you see them laying there, it's more along the lines that they're asleep and all you have to is...
TERRELL NELEMS We never laid down; we never quit. This is the best game we've played in a long time.
DIRK WILLIAMS We were thinking it would be more along the lines of 10 percent production growth, so it was a littl...
BRIAN KUZMA We inspect existing ones when people start coming in to expand them, convert them into sun rooms, an...
MARK RICE I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly lang...
LORETTA LYNN I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example -...
DEYTH BANGER The score doesn't resemble our effort. I'm proud of our effort. In similar situations this year we'v...
BOB LOCKART We wanted more firepower and all-around speed from our forward lines. We got good production from al...
JOSH BLAISDELL Dreams are our only geography—our native land.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...
MICHIO KAKU Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.
GIDEON ARGOV I think our depth wore them down along with the press. We did not finish our shots strong, but we hi...
ANDREA GORSKI His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, foll...
HERMANN HESSE Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
BENJAMIN LEE WHORF Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
BENJAMIN LEE WHORF Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
BENJAMIN LEE WHORF We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, ...
LUCY JONES It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We laid off of him. He buried 'em in our face.
ZACH WALDHER We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv...
DAVID LEVITHAN There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
EDOUARD MANET We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
JACOB BRONOWSKI Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are oft...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature sh...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI