Bellos Quotes & Sayings

The World is for All — Sun Yat-sen

But a world in which all intercultural communication was carried out in a single idiom would not diminish the variety of human tongues. It would just make native speakers of the international medium less sophisticated users of language than all others, since they alone would have only one language to think with. — David Bellos

I express not the word for the word but the sense for the sense. — David Bellos

Got niggas reacting without a sinus cause what I'm working with is timeless. — Drake

She was his princess. No. She was his goddess. With her golden skin and golden hair. She was his light. His life. His everything.
He loved her more than anything else in this world. — Morgan Rhodes

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana

The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same - that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition. — David Bellos

What? Who are you marrying?"
His jaw tightened."Princess Cleiona Bellos."
Lucia could not believe her ears. "This has been arranged."
Magnus gave her a look."Oh, not at all. Since helping to take her father's kingdom and destroy her life,I couldn't help but fall madly in love with her. Yes,obviously it was arranged. — Morgan Rhodes

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! — Louise Nurding

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos

If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee, — Nancy Astor

No opinions would be worth holding except by those who read works in the original. — David Bellos

It is better to give then to lend, and it costs about the same. — Philip Gibbs

Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations — David Bellos

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. — John Galsworthy

the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria - at least for the time being. The Syrian opposition felt betrayed and abandoned. Worse, Syrians were now completely without hope, which is the most dangerous human condition. A man or woman with no hope is capable of anything. — Richard Engel

To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts. — David Bellos

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake. — David Bellos

The difference between a translation and an original is not of the same order as the difference between powdered and steamed coffee. — David Bellos

It was the year you learned that shooting stars were either a blessing or a curse, depending on what you wanted to believe. — Lang Leav

I think people believe empathy to be compassion, that compassion is an inner sense (a sense of the soul). But empathy is a sense, while compassion isn't a sense. Empathy is an affinity, a communion, a comprehension. They say that empathy is compassion, but I think that the two are independent of each other. You see, through empathy you will feel what another is feeling, including all those plans for manipulation and persuasion. You will feel everything, not just the parts that make you take compassion for the person, but also all the red flags! You see, empathy is a sense that works with the other senses such as foresight and intuition. So, we can feel compassion but we have to move with empathy. — C. JoyBell C.

It is translation, more than speech itself, which provides incontrovertible evidence of the human capacity to think and to communicate thought.
We should do more of it. — David Bellos

There are three people in your life: your great love, the one you want to have children with, and the one whom you can spend the rest of your life with. If you find that last one first, you have it made. — Thomm Quackenbush

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. — Baron De Montesquieu

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions" — Walter Russell

Lysandra Barbas, please meet Princess Cleiona Bellos. — Morgan Rhodes

Mathematicians have, according to Wright, been "unreasonably successful" in finding applications to apparently useless theorems, and often years after the theorems were first discovered. — Alex Bellos