There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.
– Chuck Bridges
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- When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them. – Jack London
- English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. – Laura Fraser
- Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
- Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies-¦ – Samuel B Southwell
- Let’s go commit senseless acts of science. – Seanan McGuire
- Let’s go commit senseless acts of science. – Seanan McGuire
- When a language dies, a possible world dies with it. – George Steiner
- Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- He who dies with the most toys…dies a child. – James Rozoff
- Studding the indigo sky were thousands and thousands of stars. On nights like this, you could almost feel the planet moving on its axis. – Kate Mildenhall
- Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step. – Pamela Cummins
- Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed. – Chris Murray
- 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
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. – Toni Cade Bambara
- We speak in Spanish when we make love. English seems an impossible language for intimacy. – Cristina Garca
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. – Kim Stanley Robinson
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- Burning bridges is much easier than making them and bridges take you places! – Abhishek Ratna
- Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It’s the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret. – Anthony Liccione
- Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. – Terry Jones
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- Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. – Heidegger
- Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. – Faraaz Kazi
- Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. – Chuck Jones
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- To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago. – Jack Lynch
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- Because he was English and that’s what the English do under stress: they drink tea. – Cynthia Hand
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- …there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife. – Lanier Ivester
- I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language. – Beth Revis
- If only-¦the saddest words in the English language. – Kristan Higgins
- Without a doubt the two best words in the English language are The End – Ken Scott
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