Terperinci In English Translation Quotes & Sayings

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money. — Daniel Quinn

Answer this: A thousand years from now, will it matter what title the world gave you? No, but it will make a literal hell of a difference whose child you are. — Max Lucado

It's hard enough bein' people as it is, without other people coming and messin' you around. — Terry Pratchett

Most often we are victims by our own choice. — Debasish Mridha

We get trapped and configured in patterns of consumption, patterns of social organization, of education and value systems that don't seem to be feeding that sense of our original being. We fight ourselves, repeating other people's games and being fed their appetites and their amusements. — James O'Dea

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by. — K.d. Lang

It's a lot easier to teach someone how to use a computer than it is to teach someone how to be an artist, so we figured if they can animate with a pencil, we can teach them how to animate with a computer. — Victor Navone

The essence of polyphony lies precisely in the fact that the voices remain independent and, as such, are combined in a unity of a higher order than in homophony. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world? — Peter Abelard

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape. — John Burroughs

They assert that their program is purely peaceful ... We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition. — Barack Obama

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. — Robert Caro

I don't think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving. — Yohji Yamamoto

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. — Johan Huizinga

Humanity is defined by its struggles, not doomed by them. It is in the way we endure those struggles that we transcend our lower nature and enter a higher realm. — D.J. Niko