Orador Translation Quotes & Sayings

Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true. — Isaac Asimov

It's been necessary since before the time of Socrates to reject the passions, the emotions, in order to free the rational mind for an understanding of nature's order which was as yet unknown. Now it's time to further an understanding of nature's order by reassimilating those passions which were originally fled from. — Robert M. Pirsig

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. — Maya Angelou

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. — Lewis Carroll

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on its tail, or slowly sinking and returning to the profound darkness which it has lit up momentarily with a wandering light. — Virginia Woolf

Yes," Safi breathed, swaying into one of the men holding her up. She flashed a grin at him and said, "I'm Safiya fon Hasstrel, and I can do anything. — Susan Dennard

My enlightened racial consciousness demands that I reject the so-called greatness of William Faulkner and William Shakespeare. I don't have time for any of that Hamlet jive -- but Marvel superheroes are super cool. — Ta-Nehisi Coates