E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“English: "Almost every more of less straight way is eventually going to an extreme."
Česky: „Téměř každá víceméně rovná cesta časem vede k extrému.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English and Gym. That's it. Look, do you know how difficult it is to write about being at school convincingly? It's been years since Stephfordy graduated, so it'll save us all a lot of time and effort if we just stick to two real subjects...”
Source: New Moan: The First Book in The Twishite Saga: A Parody
“English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.”
“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”
“English: "Be an active cause of success, no a consequence of someone's scorn."
Česky: „Buď aktivní příčina úspěchu,
ne důsledek cizího výsměchu.”
“English: "Before trying to falsify something, try understand it more thoroughly first."
Česky: „Než se začnete snažit něco vyvrátit, snažte se to důkladněji pochopit.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Being an adult doesn't mean killing the child we once were; it means being able to protect him."
Česky: „Být dospělým neznamená zabít dítě, kterým jsme byli; znamená to umět ho chránit.”
“English: "Belief in hard determinism is the most effective enslavement."
Česky: „Víra v tvrdý determinismus je nejefektivnější zotročení.”
“English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.”
“English: "By increasing of liberty of politicians, the liberty of citizens goes down and conversely."
Česky: „Zvyšováním svobody politiků klesá svoboda občanů a naopak.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "By speaking, we enslave ourselves through the memory of others, and by silence, we make ourselves strangers."
Česky: „Mluvením zotročujeme sami sebe prostřednictvím paměti druhých a mlčením ze sebe děláme cizince.”
“English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.”
“English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.”
“English: "Change how people think and you would change the world."
Česky: „Změňte myšlení lidí a změníte celý svět.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series
“English cheeses are the finest in the world, don't you think? I don't know why anyone eats foreign cheese. Why on earth would you want a flaccid Camembert when you can have a fine, flinty farmhouse Cheddar? Most foreign cheese isn't fit to bait a mousetrap. Much of it is adulterated, you know."
Stella was partial to a well-aged Camembert, a Comté and a Cantal. The fact that one could buy Continental cheeses had been one of the pleasures of living in London, and while she'd been in Paris she'd practically lived on the stuff.”
Source: Good Taste
“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.”
“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
Source: To Think of Tea!
“English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me.”
Source: Matthew Arnold on education
“English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.”
“English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.”
Source: Treadmill to Oblivion
“English: "Cognition is the delimitation of imagination by experience."
Česky: „Poznávání je okrajování fantazie pomocí zkušenosti.”
“English: "Consensus on non-existence is easier than consensus on the manner of existence."
Česky: „Shoda o neexistenci je snazší než shoda o způsobu existence.”
“English continues to be a hideous invention.”
“English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.”
Source: The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories
“English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.”
“English culture is highly literary-based.”
“English dialogues are always just what you need and nothing more - like something out of Hemingway. In Italian and in French, dialogues are always theatrical, literary. You can do more with it.”
“English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.”
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.”
“English: "Don't like the world? So change your role in its ambiguity."
Česky: „Nelíbí se ti svět? Tak změň svou roli v jeho mnohoznačnosti.”
“English : Don't pity if you don't help!
Indonesia: Usah kasihan jika tak bantu!”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)
“English: "Dying survives with life."
Česky: „S životem přežívá i umírání.”
“English: "Each of us has a meaning, because our decisions influence others through the world."
Česky: „Každý máme smysl, protože naše rozhodnutí skrze svět ovlivňují ostatní.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Each refusal or acceptance has its extent."
Česky: „Každé odmítnutí nebo souhlas má svou míru.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "Even the non-human and inanimate world is our co-author."
Česky: „I nečlověčí a neživý svět je naším spoluautorem.”
“English: "Every book is rubbish until you understand how to read it."
Česky: „Každá kniha je brak jen do chvíle, než pochopíš, jak ji číst.”
“English: "Every person is a co-author or descendant of a co-author of the work of the global brain."
Česky: „Každý člověk je spoluautorem nebo potomkem spoluautora díla globálního mozku.”
“English: "Everything is repeating and everything is changing, so you may alter repeating's sounding."
Česky: „Vše se opakuje a vše se mění,
můžeš tak upravit opakovanosti znění.”
“English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.”
“English fans love spectacular players like Alan Shearer and that is exactly what United have now signed. He has magic in his boots. The first thing you notice about him is that he is incredibly quick and very, very powerful for such a young man. He has great, close control and his technique is excellent. He believes he can do anything with the ball, and that confidence makes him very special indeed.”
“English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.”
“English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.”
“English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant.”
“English: "For the existence of time or illusion of its flow, there must exist something that is not in all possible states at the same time. In my opinion a free consciousness or protoconsciousness is that thing."
Česky: „Aby mohl existovat čas či iluze jeho plynutí, musí existovat něco, co není ve všech možných stavech najednou. Dle mého tím je svobodné vědomí nebo protovědomí.”
Source: Vtiposcifilo-z/s-ofie
“English: "From a certain degree of freedom, understanding is impossible."
Česky: „Od určité míry svobody je dorozumění nemožné.”
“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
Source: Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
“English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.”
Source: Marcella