Josine Elizalde Quotes & Sayings

Tears are the silent passion for suffering — Christopher Poindexter

My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission. Yet a translator must also balance fidelity to the source, aptness of expression, and beauty of style. The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture's patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language's rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people's gestures and movements. — Ken Liu

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure. — Phyllis McGinley

It seems to me clear from the whole New Testament that the Christian life has room both for a godly confidence and for a godly fear. The contrast between these is not a contradiction. — Lesslie Newbigin

She was leader of this little crew and she'd go first. Always. When she took on new members, she gave them one chance to get that right. If the words, but you're a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history. — Laken Cane

Your self-image is a governor of sorts. It will never let you act in a way that is inconsistent with it. — Robin S. Sharma

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. — John Dewey

Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to others' success by attacking it. — Grant Cardone

Practice makes us what we shall be. — Swami Vivekananda

The evolution of government from its medieval, Mafia-like character to that embodying modern legal institutions and instruments is a major part of the history of freedom. It is a part that tends to be obscured or ignored because of the myopic vision of many economists, who persist in modeling government as nothing more than a gigantic form of theft and income redistribution. — Douglass North

There is no accounting for human beings. — Mark Twain

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis ... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost. — William Robertson Smith

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years. — Neil Young

Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.

"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back. — Nicola Yoon

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him. — Jeremiah Burroughs