To learn a language is not to memorise a vocabulary but to acquire a set of rules
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
Thesaurus: n. ancient reptile with large vocabulary.
Thesaurus: n. ancient reptile with large vocabulary.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, for the more convinced they were that he was neither a Jewish pretender nor an unsubstantial deity like one of the deities of the cults, the more urgent it was for them to recall that his words were the rule of their life, and that his actions in history had created their position in the world; they had to think out their faith, to state it against outside criticism, and to teach it within their own circle, instead of being content with it as a mere emotion; they had also to refresh their courage by anticipating the future, which they believed was in the hands of their Lord. The common basis of their life was the conviction that they enjoyed a new relationship with God, for which they were indebted to Jesus. The technical term for this relationship was "covenant", and "covenant" became eventually in their vocabulary "testament". Hence the later name for these writings of the church, when gathered into a sacred collection, was "The New Testament"âNew because the older relationship of God to his people, which had obtained under Judaism, with its Old Testament was superseded by the faith and fellowship which Jesus Christ his Son had inaugurated. It was the consciousness of this that inspired the early Christians to live, and to write about the origin and applications of this new life. They wrote for their own age, without a thought of posterity, and they did not write in unison but in harmony.
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start counting them on one hand, you don't need many fingers.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.