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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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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.
I beheld with my eyes. And handled with my hands the gold plates from which it was translated. I also beheld the Interpreters.
oliver cowdery— Miller, Diary, quoted in Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, p. 78 (October 21, 1848)
…the truths of Christianity are constant, unchanging, and meant for all people, times, and places. But the methods by which truth is articulated and practiced must be culturally appropriated, and therefore constantly translated …if doctrine is constant and practice is constantly changing, the result is living orthodoxy.
mark driscoll— Warnock, Adrian: Interview with Mark Driscoll, Adrian's Blog, April 2, 2006.
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.
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts od cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will an a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.
Umberto Boccioni— Boccioni et al. Les exposants au public, Exhibition Catalogue. Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Cie February 1912, p. 8
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.
Jaisingh collected and studied all the available astronomical works...Several European works were translated into Sanskrit under his orders, particularly Euclid ’s elements, with a treatise on plane and spherical trigonometry ; and on the construction and use of logarithms ...and also a treatise on conical sections...maps and globes of the Ferenghis were obtained from Surat .
— G.R. Kaye, on the efforts made by Jai Singh to set up the Astronomical Observatory in Jaipur, in p.213
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.
Alternate translation: The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation (translated by Richard M. Gummere).
— Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror, line 3.
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.
Ad astra per aspera. translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
john james ingalls— State motto of Kansas, reported to have been devised by Ingalls.
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).
