#age

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#language #truth

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#beauty

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#develop #discouragement #failure #failures #stepping

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#dreamed #ever #far #more #most

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #making #mean #message #storytelling

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. ↗

— John le Carre

#damn #fools #language #learn #most

But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.' ↗

— Howie Carr

#basically #ever #fact #go #huge

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now. ↗

— Katie Piper

#inspirational-attitude #attitude

I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#bit #christian #i #marriage #self-confident

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received. ↗

— John le Carre

#always #cleanly #communicate #concern #directly