"Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor."

-- Luis Negron

#Difficult Quotes #Translate Quotes

“I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.”

Source : "PM Lee Hsien Loong 'Grieved Beyond Words' at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's Death" by Fiona Chan, www.straitstimes.com. March 23, 2015.
“Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.”
“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
“I get worried sometimes that people are saying 'Why is she on television - is it because of Survivor?' That people are saying,'She got here the easy way.' But I have been working hard all these years, and I figured I needed to move forward and embrace it, respect it and perfect it. If I didn't, then everybody would lose.”
“I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.”
“Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.”
“Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.”
“There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.”

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