Imprevisible Translation Quotes & Sayings

Wounded
A bruise is tender
but does not last,
it leaves me as
I always was.
But a wound I take
much more to heart,
for a scar will always
leave its mark.
And if you should ask me
which you are,
my answer is -
you are a scar. — Lang Leav

I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are. — Henry Petroski

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. — J.K. Rowling

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep. — Leonardo Da Vinci

History is written by those who win and those who dominate. — Edward Said

We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling. — Jenji Kohan

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? — Michel Serres

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a 'miracle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then? — Douglas Coupland

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. — Magic Johnson

been programmed in the womb or maybe at conception and there's no escaping. The roulette wheel spins and stops and your number comes up and that's what you are no matter how hard you try or even if you don't try at all. You are what you are, you are what you're not, and other events and other people just enhance the angel or devil, the winner or the loser in you. It's all about the spinning of the wheel, whether it's hitting the winning home run in the World Series or being raped. Decided — Patricia Cornwell

It must take the most incredible self-control, that stillness, that passivity; it must be exhausting. — Paula Hawkins

I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby. — Solange Knowles

A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame. The teacher who has come to the end of his subject, who has no living traffic with his knowledge but merely repeats his lesson to his students, can only load their minds, he cannot quicken them ... — Rabindranath Tagore

What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well. — Walter Munk