Translated Quotes
209 quotes by 192 authors
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The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
— Alan Furst
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I love you', though, were three words she had often heard during her twenty-two years, and it seemed to her that they were now completely…
— Paulo Coelho
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The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most…
— Ridley Pearson
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The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated…
— Virginia Woolf
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...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five…
— Robin Sloan
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
— Susan Sontag
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The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a…
— Brennan Manning
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Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me into his arms…
— Tammara Webber
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My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of…
— Frances Hardinge
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated…
— Aimee Bender
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All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream…
— John F. Kennedy
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Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future…
— Stephen King
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Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health…
— Ralph Bunche
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