Paul the Apostle Quotes

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

Translation is at best an echo.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same language. So native New Yorkers can move to San Francisco, Houston, or Milwaukee and still understand and be understood by everyone they meet. Right? Well, not exactly. Or, as a native New Yorker might put it, 'Wrong!'

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

As humans we speak one language.

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm often frustrated using words to talk to people.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

The diversity of language alienates man from man

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.