Stanley Lombardo Translation Quotes

Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal.
I was constructed by divine power,
supreme wisdom, and love primordial.
Before me no created things were.
Save those eternal, and eternal I abide.
Abandon all hope, you who enter. ~ Dante Alighieri

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made. ~ Richard Stanley

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account. ~ William Stanley Jevons

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain. ~ Tea Obreht

I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any athlete. Any top athlete will see something that they are very proud of. All my injuries will attest to the fact that besides being a musician, it comes down to being an athlete. ~ Paul Stanley

Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome. ~ Paul Stanley

Victory is possible. Genuine healing can occur if we're willing to allow the Father to set us free. ~ Charles F. Stanley

Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities. ~ E. Stanley Jones

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world. ~ Tom Chatfield

There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers. ~ William Stanley Jevons

There's never any cumulative value to all the things we do instead of the things we know are truly important. What ~ Andy Stanley

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. ~ Ann Goldstein

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. ~ Charles Stanley

She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit whole inside the soul, undiminished by conversation, by any attempt at translation or persuasion. ~ Elizabeth Berg

Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather.
And it lives. ~ Jessica Day George

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage. ~ Paul Stanley

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life. ~ Andy Stanley

What's that map?" I asked.
"Spells of Coming Forth by Day," he said. "Don't worry. It's a good copy."
I looked at Carter for a translation.
"Most people call it The Book of the Dead," he told me. "Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It's like an Idiot's Guide to the Afterlife."
The captain hummed indignantly. "I am no idiot, Lord Kane."
"No, no, I just meant ... " Carter's voice faltered. "Uh, what is that? ~ Rick Riordan

They died, he wrote, as if overcome by sleep - or, according to a second translation: as if drowned in a dream. ~ Karen Thompson Walker

Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up? ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect. ~ Stanley Donen

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead. ~ Andy Stanley

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision. ~ Stanley Crouch

Because of Face book, Twitter, MySpace and Stumble Upon, the Home Shopping Network is probably losing millions of dollars. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

However, this translation is, in the words of Dr. Giles, "excessively bad." He goes further in this criticism: "It is not merely a question of downright blunders, from which none can hope to be wholly exempt. ~ Sun Tzu

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn't possibly do it without a savior. ~ Andy Stanley

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old. ~ Mike McCready

A Cyclops on a unicycle juggling three giant eyeballs couldn't compare to the balanced vision my writing presents. In fact, noted linguist and translation expert Dora J. Arod had these flattering words to say about my writing: "I wouldn't read Jarod's writing - not even if he paid me to read it. And he does pay me to read his writing, but that doesn't mean I do." Of course the quote continued on, but that was the only part that was praising. ~ Jarod Kintz

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality. ~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks. ~ George Vecsey