"To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night."

-- Grace Paley

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Translate Quotes

“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”
“Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.”

Source : Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com
“My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.”
“To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.”
“You ain't as hard as you act. When I GPS 'pussy,' I end up at your welcome mat...”
“Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son and our brother is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. All the younger brothers try to imitate the elder Brother in love and honor towards God and the Immaculata, our common parents, and from the Immaculata they try to love the divine elder Brother, the ideal of sanctity who deigned to come down from heaven to be incarnated in her and to live with us in the tabernacle...”
“There's a balance and I feel very, very strong and very, very fit at the moment. There's no - touch wood - niggles at the moment, there's nothing that's twinging or nothing that's too painful. Apart from a bit of chafing from the wetsuit!”

Source : "Greg James' Gregathlon for Sport Relief". Interview with Stephanie Soh, uk.askmen.com. February 8, 2016.
“We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.”

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