Plichta Slovnik Quotes & Sayings

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark) — Peter Newmark

If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with [ ... ] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth.
The conditions under which we exist today in the field of politics are indeed threatened by these devastating sand storms. — Hannah Arendt

Christmas is a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass our own. — Karen Kingsbury

Revenge of the Giant Grill Man. — Joan Bauer

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. — Octave Mirbeau

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world. — Anne Roiphe

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature. — Thales

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates. — Jane Frances De Chantal

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. — Oscar Wilde

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side. — Henry Cavill

Nobody wants to retire from football. — LaDainian Tomlinson

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here. — Ken Livingstone

You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else. — Elisabeth Of Wied

The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world. — Boyd K. Packer

[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law ... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number. — Frederick Soddy