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209 quotes by 192 authors

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a… — Samuel Johnson
A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold… — Fernando Pessoa
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action. — E. V. Lucas
Less than 10% of the fuel energy burned in automobiles is translated into forward motion of the vehicle and even then most of this energy… — David Suzuki
Reasons to be positive. The economic downturn could be the catalyst for positive change. It should be translated into the wake-up call we need for… — Phil Harding
It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY… — Erma Bombeck
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not… — John Burroughs
He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at… — William Gaddis
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language. — Billy Graham
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure,… — Saul Bellow
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that youâ€™ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your… — Rod Serling
The BÃ¶n texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and… — Anne Klein
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of… — Warren Buffett
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. — Ned Rorem
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. — Ferdinand Porsche
Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated… — Nathaniel Branden
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is… — Malala Yousafzai

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