T Quotes
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“The translator in me--always at work, even in English-wants to understand the intent of his words. This is where the meaning must lie, right? With the filters turned off, the translator's mind is unfettered by others' words, actions, or opinions, or even by their mere presence. (15)”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.”
“The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!”
“the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.”
“The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.”
Source: The works
“The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.”
“The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.”
“The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.”
“The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.”
“The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?”
“The transmission systems are still regulated.”
“The transmogrification of Islam into Islamism is bad news not only for the West but also for the majority of Muslims who have no desire to live in totalitarian theocracies. “For the West it is but a physical threat in the form of terrorism,” said Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir. “For the world of Islam . . . to be trapped in bin Ladenism is to travel back in time to the dark ages of Muslim obscurantism. It means to be stuck in the mire which has held the Islamic world back.”
Source: The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis
“The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.”
“The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.”
“The transparent glassy moon shines abroad, and reflects the radiance above jocund streams, a cluster of stars kiss the night’s cheek, I envy! the Music faints, yet it pretends to be happy, a beam of Wisdom stills me, and bestirs, my wings are unfolded to fly, to fly! to a world, never, ever have I seen, from a World, I lost the love.”
“The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.”
“The Transphilosophical Divide: the point where truth begins to exist on both sides of the line, the point where all contradictory hypotheses can be simultaneously verified.”
Source: Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000
“The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.”
“The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female spirit, mind, creativity and sexuality exist anywhere in a powerful way it is here, among lesbian-feminists.”
Source: The transsexual empire
“The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.”
“The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.”
“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.”
Source: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.”
“The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.”
“The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known.”
“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”
Source: Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt
“The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.”
“The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.”
“The traps of unbridled passion that drive us to hold back the truth and hamper us from speaking candidly and truthfully must not invade our thinking. Living on lies and denying irrefutable facts to attain power or glory condemn anyone to walk on bumpy paths with awkward pitfalls and embarrassing wrangles. ("The power and the glory" )”
“The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.”
Source: The Pastures of Heaven
“The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.”
“The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.”
“The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.”
“The trauma recovery with a narcissistic mother (or father) is not an easy one. There may be bumps in the road. You may have grown up feeling rejected, ostracized, or condemned. You may have moments when your inner critic screamed awful words to you.
Essentially, healing means you must release codependent relationships with toxic folks. It starts by identifying and understanding the shameful messages and beliefs that were transferred from the perpetrators to you, which are false.
In effort to heal your mother wound (or father wound), it requires you to replace the negative, internalized messages to be transformed into positive self-talk that is kind, loving, nurturing, and respectful.”
Source: Soul Rescue: How to Break Free From Narcissistic Abuse & Heal Trauma
“The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.”
“The traumas associated with colonization that lasted almost 400 years scarred us all, regardless of our nativity, language, class, or gender. Trauma fragments and fractures the essence of our being and self-knowledge; it disconnects us from each other.” Regardless of your nativity, your memories are colonized. You are born into trauma without an initial understanding of or hermeneutic for your fragmented self and you must work diligently just to explain your own life—to recognize and name your scars, to educate
yourself about your specific cultural history and uncover its connections to your subjectivity. The ideologies of your family are colonized, and even your own thoughts and actions are colonized, despite your initial unawareness of the systematic forces at work in the simple procedures of your daily life.”
Source: Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory
“The traumatic moment becomes encoded in an abnormal form of memory, which breaks spontaneously into consciouness, both as flashbacks during waking states and as traumatic nightmares during sleep. Small, seemingly insignificant reminders can also evoke these memories, which often return with all the vividness and emotional force of the original event. Thus, even normally safe environments may come to feel dangerous, for the survivor can never be assured that she will not encounter some reminder of the trauma.”
Source: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“The traumatized person is often relieved simply to learn the true name of her condition. By ascertaining her diagnosis, she begins the process of mastery. No longer imprisoned in the wordlessness of the trauma, she discovers that there is a language for her experience. She discovers that she is not alone; others have suffered in similar ways. She discovers further that she is not crazy; the traumatic syndromes are normal human responses to extreme circumstances. And she discovers, finally, that she is not doomed to suffer this condition indefinitely; she can expect to recover, as others have recovered...”
“The travel agency will provide you by more information.”
“The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Florida, California, New York and Nevada, to name a few.”
“The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.”
“The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.”
“The travel is a lot uglier than it once was with TSA and the deregulation of the airline services. These planes are getting smaller for my 6" 2' frame.”
“The travel sites all describe Luxembourg as a fairy tale come to life, but it feels less like a Grimm land of trolls and big bad wolves, and more like Disneyland Paris. Luxembourg is the wealthiest country in all of Europe, and the Old City is overrun by the tax-sheltered children of eBay and Skype executives, moving in Pied Piper phalanxes with their phones out and thumbs flying—casting spells out into the ethernet." (from "The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards: A Novel (Ala Notable Books for Adults)" by Kristopher Jansma)”
Source: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.”
Source: Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era
“The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.”
“The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.”
Source: Table-talk
“The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.”
Source: Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.”
“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.”
Source: The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society