"Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit."

-- Edward Sapir

#Religious Quotes #Latin Quotes #Long Quotes

“The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.”

Source : "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life,". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 252, 1959.
“Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.”
“I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”

Source : Incidentals (1907) p. 8
“This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.”
“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
“Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.”
“To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe Gideon". "All That Jazz", www.imdb.com. December 16, 1979.
“In an odd wayÂ (the death of John Daly)Â is cheering news!”

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