Vertaleeee Quotes & Sayings

Clever readers, of course, would already have seen through the entire thing, and for them the ending would lack surprise. But Harriet knew from experience that the pleasures of having guessed it all, with the concomitant pleasure of feeling clever, would make up for that as long as matters were not humiliatingly easy to guess. — Jill Paton Walsh

However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book & especially a great one is a complex & highly personal exchange between its writer & its readers. None of us reads precisely the same book, even if the words are identical. Readers too, are part of the ongoing process of translation that begins in the author's mind. — Michael Cunningham

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. — Richard Dawkins

One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos. — Ginger Rogers

Your thoughts of God are too human — Martin Luther

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test. — Erin Gruwell

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy. — Evan Bayh

Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors. — Tim Daly

Islam did not retain any of the Judeo-Christian Bible. — Bernard Lewis

If you are in with God you are out with the world. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression. — Robert M. Pirsig

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed. — Charles Dickens