Untranslatable Words Quotes

#1. The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Salman Rushdie

#2. We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Bennie Thompson

#3. You love strapping me in, don't you?"
"In any form," he says, a wicked grin playing on his lips.
"You are a pervert."
"I know." He raises his eyebrows and his grin broadens.
"My pervert," I whisper.
"Yes, yours.

E.L. James

#4. Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

Alice McDermott

#5. To live is to die. To die is to live. To avoid death, is to avoid living.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Robin Hobb

#7. It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Moliere

#8. Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. It was right then, in that instant, that I realized I might be a little in love with Aiden. Not in a way that was anything like the easy crush I had on him in the past, but different. So, so different.

Mariana Zapata

#10. Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

David Gemmell

#11. The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly.

Sherry Argov

#12. There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

Michael Pollan