Generalmente Translation Quotes

#1. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

Nikita Khrushchev

#3. We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

Giorgio Armani

#5. Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight

William W. Johnstone

#6. Moments of truth are best handled face-to-face P.30

Patrick Lencioni

#7. You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

Alton Brown

#8. We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Mike Rutherford

#9. Choking the gopher. What'd you think I'd do, my homework?

Simone Elkeles

#10. There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

Jill Bennett

#11. I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

Michael Lewis

#12. Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Jean De La Fontaine

#13. In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

Vissarion Belinsky