Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Marilyn Hacker

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

Josh McDowell

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anon.

...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Darlene Zschech

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Owen D. Young

I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.

Garret Dillahunt

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.

Jean Baudrillard

Live in the sunshine

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?

John Steinbeck