Quotes about Language

This verse uses the Hebrew word milacha to refer to work instead of the more common word avoda. Milacha is not truly translatable; it is best understood as creative work—work that produces something.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

the liberals resort constantly to a double use of language.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

words easy to be understood often hit the mark, whereas high and learned words only pierce the air.

communication comes from the Latin word communis, meaning "common.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

If you talk to a man in the language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.