Tratando Translation Quotes & Sayings

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,
though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,
yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style. — Benjamin Disraeli

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. — Ambrose Bierce

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work. — Steve Erickson

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. — Paulo Coelho

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by. — Francoise Sagan

These [Asian] paintings I could get into and they made me wonder who I was. By contrast, Western painters tried to tell me who they were. — John McLaughlin

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. - T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land — Larry McMurtry

Massachusetts's poor laws required that boys be taught to write and girls to read.7 — Jill Lepore

What I am is constantly thrust into my face while I'm trying to be better than I am. Even if I'm actively doing all the right things, I can't escape the fact that my internal reactions are those of a fundamentally horrible person. — Allie Brosh

We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves! — Nina Hagen

Logan Masters and Noah Zacharius stood on the steps, grinning at him like a couple of fools. — Toni Anderson

Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages. — John Stahl-Wert