Quotation

[سارة]

History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world
and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

De Lacy O'Leary in 'Islam at the Crossroads,' London, 1923. Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

Talk uses up ideas.... Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow

Doris Grumbach

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Think before you act!

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Georges Bernanos

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

George Bernard Shaw

'Travel is glamorous only in retrospect
PAUL THEREOUX'





This is his first punishment that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted

Juvenal (C 60 - 130 AD)

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Edith Hamilton

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat...where in this ****phor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translation.
Ezra Pound

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

John French

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

Richard Chevenix Trench

Words have the power to both destroy and heal.
When words are both true and kind,
They can change our world

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes




What is the importance of a name? That to which we have given the name of a rose would continue to have the same sweet smell even if we were to give it some other name

William Shakespeare

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak

Ausonius

What is the importance of a name? That to which we have given the name of a rose would continue to have the same sweet smell even if we were to give it some other name

William Shakespeare