I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
– AJ Jacobs
Related Quotes:
- The Bible is God speaking to mankind. The more you read the Bible, the more you will hear God speaking to you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. – William Golding
- when you obey the rules, the rules obey you – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- If you obey God with your whole heart, you’ll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them. – Meg Moseley
- I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette – Lin Manuel Miranda
- I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette. – Lin Manuel Miranda
- The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic. – Charles Maurras
- If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own. – Billy Graham
- To attempt to know myself -˜apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than -˜a part’ of myself. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs – Karl Lagerfeld
- Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- Energy doesn’t communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly – Elaine Seiler
- I let myself flop – so gently, so slowly – into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe. – Frederik Pohl
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
- When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
- Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal. – David McRaney
- Don’t live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. – Amit Kalantri
- Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
- Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles – Sunday Adelaja
- The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists. – Neville Weston
- To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. – Jack Lynch
- Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. – Aravind Adiga
- Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea. – Cynthia Hand
- Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him. – Rachel Higginson
- The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment. – Tony Samara
- And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake! – Nina George
- True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. – Debasish Mridha
- The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. – John Patrick Hickey
- The earth’s orbit didn’t slow down. The world didn’t stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees. – BR Collins
- O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly! – Kobayashi Issa
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly. – Gypsy Rose Lee
- The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. – Allan Lokos
- We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we’ve been speaking English as a second language so long that we’ve forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue. – Chuck Palahniuk
- The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth. – Jim George