#trans

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#attentive #been #british #city #europe

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. ↗

— Jung Chang

#book #china #chinese #copies #gone

Translation is the art of failure. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#failure #translation

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#eating #food #mindful-eating #mindfulness #prayer

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. ↗

— Sean Elliott

#detection #disease #doctor #doing #head

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

#ever #get #give #i #ideas

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. ↗

— James Ellroy

#black #crime #dad #elizabeth #general

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#i #maybe #myself #such #thing

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#aware #democratic #east #exclusively #i