"I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible."

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Source : Source: time.com

Ann Goldstein

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Be Kind Quotes

“What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.”
“I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted. The combination of all the tendencies to the good has produced the best; but as there are goods that are incompatible together, this combination and this result can introduce the destruction of some good, and as a result some evil.”

Source : Letter to Louis Bourguet in late 1712. "The Shorter Leibniz Texts: A Collection of New Translations" edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 208, 2006.
“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.”

Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net
“The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.”
“I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.”
“World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.”
“Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.”

Source : James H. Billington (1988). “Books and the world”

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