#parable

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#does #doing #myself #particular #performer

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#both #estates #fools #given #great

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#children #comparable #era #house #kennedy

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #comparable #everything #friends #friendships

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#parable #prodigal-son #religious #business

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#biology #essence #inseparable #science

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#capable #capacity #comparable #could #development

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter. the Tai Chi instructor ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#grief #parables #sorrow #tai-chi #life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#god #invented #life #life is a #parable

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#parables #screenwriting #storytelling #television #art