Auslander Translation Quotes & Sayings

He was the real hero, Tenzing," Gyan had said, "Hilary couldn't have made it without sherpas carrying his bags." Everyone around had agreed. Tenzing was certainly first, or else he was made to wait with the bags so Hilary could take the first step on behalf of that colonial enterprise of sticking your flag on what was not yours.
Sai had wondered, should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them? Sherpas went up and down, ten times, fifteen times in some cases, without glory, without claim of ownership, and there were those who said it was sacred and shouldn't be sullied at all. — Kiran Desai

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. — James Altucher

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak — Richard Paul Evans

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings.
It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks — George Eliot

Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind. — Tony Kushner

What if Science is God's way of reminding us that he is greater than the stories and dogma we have confined him to? — Steve Maraboli

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it. — Henry David Thoreau

A Court of equity knows its own province. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

One of the main reasons I write fiction is to try to understand what life is like for people other than myself, to try to see the world through my characters' eyes. I often find that I'm able to understand certain emotional truths about my own life by exploring things from different vantages. — Molly Antopol