Disimular Translation Quotes

#1. There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. I think fear ... tends to hold people back from really pursuing their dreams. Basically: LEAP! And the net will appear.

Bif Naked

#4. "A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

Steven Soderbergh

#5. While dessert tastes good, woman cannot live on cake alone.

Melissa Ford

#6. Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

C.S. Lewis

#7. This is the city of disguises. What you are one day will not constrain you on the next. You may explore yourself freely and, if you have wit or wealth, no one will stand in your way. This city was built on wit and wealth and we have a fondness for both, though they do not have to appear in tandem.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

Henry James

#9. Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Imre Lakatos

#10. I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Edward Carpenter

#11. There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

Elinor Ostrom

#12. It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.

Anna Quindlen

#13. At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

Thomas Carlyle