Benjamin Lee Whorf Famous Quotes
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf Quotations
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
Oprah Winfrey
To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.
Chinese Proverb
"Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems."
John W Gardner
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
John Lancaster Spalding
"War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with."
Lois McMaster Bujold
He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.
Henry Graham Greene
"In the end, everything is a gag."
Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin
I know all except myself.
Francois Villon
"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all"
William Hart Coleridge
"An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens."
Robert Benchley