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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.
cecil, william, 1st baron burghley— Title of a pamphlet published by Burghley on Spanish claims over what happened during the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England in 1588.
— Conyers Read, Lord Burghley and Queen Elizabeth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1960), pp. 433-4.
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
pierre teilhard de chardin— A Sketch of a Personalistic Universe.
On the platform stood a policeman of normal proportions, and instead of a revolver and a truncheon he carried a copy of Ben Hur translated into Irish, which he was evidently studying for an examination important to his professional advancement. MrThewless realised that the imperial might of Great Britain lay behind him and that in front was the philosophic republic of Mr de Valera.
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart— 1949 TheJourneying Boy.
The vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
David Thomson— 1987 Nairn in Darkness and Light.
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English speaking audiences.
— 1920 TheAge of Innocence, bk.1, ch.1.
There is no intimacy; it’s not live. [he said of online games] It’s being translated through a computer, and your imagination is not there the same way it is when you’re actually together with a group of people. It reminds me of one time where I saw some children talking about whether they liked radio or television, and I asked one little boy why he preferred radio, and he said, "Because the pictures are so much better."
gary gygax— Interview in 2006, as quoted in "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" in The New York Times (5 March 2008)
Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees. (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White)
hesiod— Variant translation: At the beginning of the cask and at the end take thy fill, but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom saving comes too late.
— line 368.
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.
ventseslav konstantinov— As quoted in "From Bach to Kafka, or... about temptation - An interview by Emil Bassat" in Sofia News (30 May 1984)
I'd like that translated, if I may.
harold macmillan— "Mr Macmillan seeks end to world fear", The Times, 30 September 1960, p. 12.
— Macmillan's reaction at the United Nations General Assembly when Nikita Khrushchev started shouting and banging his shoe on the desk in protest at something in Macmillan's speech.
"'Babies of course are not human — they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes; the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates. In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.'"
lewis padgett— A quote from A High Wind in Jamaica : The Innocent Voyage (1932) by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, read by Rex Holloway
Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a Wirtschaftswunder , which can be briefly translated as "The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one."
alan coren— "All You Need To Know About Europe", Germany
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 8, pg.99
Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land. (translated by David Kovacs: Perseus Digital Library)
Euripides— Line 653variant translation (Paul Roche): For nothing is like the sorrow or supersedes the sadness of losing your native land.
Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man."
joseph goebbels— Das Christentum ist keine Religion für viele, geschweige denn für alle. Von wenigen gepflegt und in die Tat umgesetzt, ist es eine der köstlichsten Blüten, die eine Kulturseele je getrieben hat.
The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
camille paglia— p. 15 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.
— Peter Drucker (1973) MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Chapter 8, pg.99.
Executable UML (xUML) consists of UML class diagrams, UML state machines and an action language which complies with the UML action semantics. There are several action languages in use; we refer to for a somewhat limited overview. The xUML models to be translated are expressed in the Cassandra/xUML dialect, as developed by KnowGravity.
— Helle Hvid Hansen et al. (2010) "Towards model checking executable UML specifications in mCRL2." Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering Vol 6 (1-2) p. 83-90.
When twenty years ago a vague terror went over the earth and the word socialism began to be heard, I thought and still think that fear was translated into doctrines that had no proper place in the Constitution or the common law. Judges are apt to be naif, simple-minded men, and they need something of Mephistopheles. We too need education in the obvious to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "Law and the Court", Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, New York City (February 15, 1913); in Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1934), p. 102.
The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks , have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.
— Muqaddimah, Translated by Franz Rosenthal, p.39 and p.383, Princeton University Press, 1981.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language .
— Twyla Tharp, in Gia Kourlas Tharp’s New Tale, Woven In Dance, New York Times, 3 February 2012
Alternate translation: Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. (translated by Zachariah Rush).
— Letter CVI: On the corporeality of virtue, line 12
Jorge Luis Borges, Otras inquisiciones (1952); first translated by Ruth L. C. Simms as Other Inquisitions, 1937–1952 (1964)
— Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman, Star Trek: Generations (1994), (Jean-Luc Picard).
(translated from Japanese) You'll have to beg much better than that.
— Who: Gogo Yubari
— Notes: The Bride had pleaded with her to run, rather than fight her. After she says this to mock the Bride's attempts, she fights with her, and is killed when The Bride hits her in the head with a chair leg, before driving nails through her skull.
(translated from Japanese) That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword...
— Who: O-Ren Ishii
— Notes: Character had doubted that her enemy and former colleague's sword was actually made by Hattori Hanzo. Just before she says this, she gets "scalped" by the sword.
The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.
— Dejan Stojanovic in The Creator, “World II” (Sequence: “The Dream Chamber”).
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.
jonathan swift— Jonathan Swift, On Poetry.
But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curlèd state unfold, translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, Gilded Gold, Stanza 1.
Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima . translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned".
— Attributed to Sannazarius by Greswell in his Memoirs of Politian, inscribed to Cassandra Marchesia an edition of his Italian Poems, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
