Aportar Translation Quotes & Sayings

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties. — John Dewey

It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate. — Louie Giglio

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive. — John Glassco

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later ... ' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that. — Joss Whedon

Well, not the stuff they use in robotics, which I wouldn't follow, but sociological relationships I can handle. For instance, I'm familiar with the Teramin Relationship." "The what, sir?" "Maybe you have a different name for it. The differential of inconveniences suffered with privileges granted: dee eye sub jay taken to the nth - - " "What are you talking about? — Isaac Asimov

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.' — Diane Kruger

At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on ... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal — Orhan Pamuk

Your life doesn't happen in any kind of order. Events don't have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It's all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Last summer we had a dad and a brother and then they were gone.
We did not see it coming. — Ally Condie

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram. — Lance Morrow

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius

We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left. — Donald Trump

It takes 25 years or so for a male sperm whale to reach the edge of social maturity, when it attains the size and weight of those I saw being butchered. It took less than four hours to transform those once vibrant creatures into the basic ingredients of candle wax, lubricating oils, cosmetics, fertilizer, ivory trinkets, and food for domesticated animals. — Sylvia Earle

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it. — Edward Hoagland