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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson

Liberty, Expect, Despotism

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Humble

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham

Life, Time, Through

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John Donne

Book, Language, Torn

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Jacques Derrida

Political, Problem, Media

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

Age, Moving, Ourselves

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.
Kesha

Intentions, Bum, Properly

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Emmet Fox

Life, Strength, May

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Work, History, Book

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson

Powerful, Matter, Whatever

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood

Time, Find, Meaning

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Elia Kazan

Nothing, Cannot, Action

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

Seems, Works, Effect

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
June Jordan

Travel, Country, Two

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.
Giorgio Armani

Strong, Fashion, Enthusiasm

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Support, Terrorism, Yes

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Larry Elder

Last, Year, Books

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Martin Amis

Past, Books, Spanish

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
Christian Lacroix

English, Songs, Class

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
William Kingdon Clifford

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Yuri Milner

Different, Question, Somebody

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
Tom Jenkinson

Knowledge, Through, Playing

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Fredrik Bajer

Doubt, Since, English

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.
Sally Schneider

Time, Country, Might

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.
Suzy Bogguss

Past, Give, Trying

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Book, Different, Song

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.
Thomas E. Mann

Support, President, Republican

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.
Franz Kline

Nature, Different, Anguish

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