Lawrence Venuti Quotes

#1. In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, [invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons] was probably a reasonable thing to do.

Condoleezza Rice

#2. You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

Steve Jobs

#3. Planned Parenthood does some very good work. But I would defund as long as they're doing abortions.

Donald Trump

#4. The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.

Anna Todd

#5. It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

Walt Disney Company

#6. Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

Lawrence Venuti

#7. Kindness in essence is the sustaining force for the humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Barney Frank