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"Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - all communist! We know the west was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile." »Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame
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"I wish I lived back in the Old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word." »Kedar Joshi
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." »Sir Edward Appleton
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"Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language." »Henry David Thoreau
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"California: The west coast of Iowa." »Joan Didion
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"I have become a queer mixture of the East and the west, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!" »Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"west is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language." »Cicero
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"language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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""Don't ask me for my resume -it's a piece of paper that won't help you or your business. Instead, ask me for unique ideas - and with that, I will give you plenty." ~ Jaxi west" »Jaxi West
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"I hear it said that west Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." »Nelson Mandela
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"The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the west and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan
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"The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and west, the tie of love which blends human hearts." »Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
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"Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"The west won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." »Samuel P. Huntington
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"By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely." »Karl Buhler, 1930
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the west today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..." »Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
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"As was his language so was his life." »Seneca
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