Spalten Translate Quotes & Sayings

The shield of faith is sword to conquer every fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He can reasonably accept man as a freak, because he accepts man as a fact. — G.K. Chesterton

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. — Mark Zuckerberg

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade ... I live in great density ... Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage ... In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities. — Gaston Bachelard

A successful life is decorated with a flower called purpose. — Debasish Mridha

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. — Steven Spielberg

Once or twice, in the first days of his marriage, he had asked himself with a slight shiver what would happen if Susy should begin to bore him. The thing had happened to him with other women as to whom his first emotions had not differed in intensity from those she inspired. — Edith Wharton

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think what a waste of energy. If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself. — Conor McGregor

Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Here's the scientific community saying, fundamentally, "If we don't change our ways, we're screwed." And they got no attention at all. Even though the Union of Concerned Scientists put out this statement which was signed by more than half of all the Nobel laureates in science and another 1,500 distinguished scientists. — Paul R. Ehrlich

Optimism. It's not just a mind-set, it is behavior. — Larry Elder

Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool. — Bernard Sahlins

The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the Jews as the new Priestly caste. The alternative Church of our society, the Jews, survived in abeyance for hundreds of years. As long as the Christian Church attended to the discourse, the Jews plainly had no chance to compete; but when its power was broken by liberty-seekers, the alternative arrangement came forward. — Israel Shamir