Gegenwart Translation Quotes & Sayings

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Vanity working on a weak mind produces every kind of mischief. — Jane Austen

I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible. — Rosecrans Baldwin

If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety. — Ben Aaronovitch

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better. — Charles Spurgeon

In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and daily, becomes ordinary. But for writers, like children who have never quite grown up, life retains a quality of strangeness; it remains a matter of questions for which there are no satisfactory answers, of hidden motives, displaced explanations, subtle concealments and mysteries. Eavesdropping of one kind or another, keeping an eye open and an ear cocked, even in public places, for the giveaway facial expression or gesture, the revealing word, becomes a settled habit for the writer, a necessary part of his professional equipment: the laying down of small scraps of information, of observation or experience, for future use. — David Malouf

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. — Rex Stout

Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life. — Faith Sullivan

'Downton Abbey' about upper-class posh people: of course it is. — Phyllis Logan

Id is fery boedigal!" he said, his blue eyes twinkling. "Cabdain Blood is fond of boedry - you remember de abble-blossoms. So? Ha, ha! — Rafael Sabatini

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels. — J.L. Austin

Who is Hunter Becker?"
"Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?"
"I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing. — Ilona Andrews

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you. — Claudia Rankine

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain . — James Rozoff

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold