Evgeny Svechnikov Quotes & Sayings

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn

The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness. — Thomas Hardy

You have to be brave to be in love. — Sara Young

Sick of being a prisoner of my childhood, I want to put it behind me. — Clive James

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country. — Christine O'Donnell

True translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal. One reads and rereads the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them to reach, to touch, the vision or experience that prompted them. One then gathers up what one has found there and takes this quivering almost wordless "thing" and places it behind the language it needs to be translated into. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the "thing" that is waiting to be articulated. — John Berger

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose. — Jason Reitman

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. — Oswald Chambers

The love you do have in your life should not be overshadowed by the love you don't — Steven Aitchison

The doctrine of adoption establishes the reality that believers, once saved, are always saved. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally. — Kalup Linzy

I did not usually feel that sort of passion about any case, but I disliked this murderer already. For murdering, yes, but also for fucking with us. For refusing to submit. — William Landay