Courtoisie En Quotes & Sayings

In some sense the text and the translator are locked in struggle - 'I attacked that sentence, it resisted me, I attacked another, it eluded me' - a struggle in which, curiously, when the translator wins, the text wins too ... — Lydia Davis

A good decision cannot guarantee a good outcome. All real decisions are made under uncertainty. A decision is therefore a bet, and evaluating it as good or not must depend on the stakes and the odds, not on the outcome. — Ward Edwards

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system. — Jerry Brown

You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible. — Warren Ellis

J..es ... u..s fu ... ck..in.g Ch..ri ... st Liam! The bed slammed against the wall. — J.J. McAvoy

The reason we're often not there for others - whether for our child or our mother or someone who is insulting us or someone who frightens us - is that we're not there for ourselves. — Pema Chodron

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies? — Jean-Paul Sartre

The only color I don't have is navy brown. — Yogi Berra

I hate all the core stuff. That's why I have to have a trainer. That's the only way I'm going to do the abs work. — Sarah Rafferty

Love. This is a lorry, not a Ferrari. — Sophie Kinsella