Contrajo Translation Quotes & Sayings

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. — Gautama Buddha

I'd cycled through the stages of rejection - denial, anger, homicidal mania, hating Matt's stupid face, and acceptance — Tim Anderson

You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination.
That would have to do. — Ann Aguirre

There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. — Frank Yerby

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God. — Charles S. Price

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over. — Joshua Slocum

For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open. — David Bentley Hart

What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy? You sit crowned Queen at the right hand of your son: your dominion reaches as far as the heavens and to you are subject the earth and all creatures dwelling thereon. Your dominion reaches even down into the abyss of hell, and you alone, oh Mary, save us from the hands of Satan. — Pope Pius X

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. — Vivienne Westwood

Isn't one man's truth another man's lie? — Amy Jarecki

I'm frightened to look at myself in the mirror because maybe nothing's there. — Melina Marchetta

You decide for yourself when it will hurt. — Per Petterson

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. — Edmund White

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better. — China Machado

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant. — Helen Steiner Rice