Borrowed Language Quotes

#1. I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Mobutu Sese Seko

#2. Can I? Can I speak my mind or am I dumb inside a borrowed language, captive of bastard thoughts? What of me is mine?

Jeanette Winterson

#3. We need more gay in the world! I really believe that.

Brad Goreski

#4. And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia.

S.A. David

#5. Death by a blow or just by the fall?" asked Detective Zach, who was standing beside me at the accident site. "Do you have maybe an X-ray machine with you?" I replied angrily. "After all, I would be grateful if I could have your finding today," said Zach.

Scott Andrew Selby

#6. No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Was he proud that you became a soldier?" "No, it hurt him deeply. He was very angry with me, in his own silent, simmering way. "During the war I did what was expected of me when I pulled on the uniform. I can see now that he was afraid that was what would happen to me.

S.R. Wilsher

#8. The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Victor Hugo

#9. And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

Rachel Dratch

#10. English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Mason Cooley

#11. Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.

Erwin McManus

#12. Enjoy life - it has an expiry date

Stella Swanepoel

#13. We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.

Cameron Crowe

#14. These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#15. You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.

Barack Obama

#16. But they don't like the sun: it makes their legs wobble and their heads giddy.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. We have no borders. Our vets are being treated horribly. Illegal immigration is beyond belief.

Donald Trump

#18. Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Ben Jonson

#19. Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Michael Pollan

#20. How do you get over a first love?" he asks.
"You never do," Howard says. "It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.

Jonathan Goldstein