“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Некоторые люди чувствуют дождь. Остальные лишь промокают!
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“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
Спокойные люди имеют самые громкие мысли.
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
Живите ради чужого одобрения и вы станете пленником.
Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Никогда не говори правды людям, которые её не заслуживают.
“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Самые веселые люди - в тоже время и самые мрачные.
“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”
Источник: Frostbite
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Счастливые умные люди - редчайшая вещь, которую я знаю.
Marita in Ch. 11
Источник: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Вариант: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Я пью, чтобы окружающие меня люди становились интереснее.
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Книги для людей, которые хотят, чтобы они были где-то еще.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
Жёсткие времена долго не держатся. Долго держатся лишь жёсткие люди.
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Источник: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Angry people are not always wise.”
Злые люди не всегда мудры.
Источник: Pride and Prejudice
“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”
Многие люди умирают в 25 лет, а в могилу попадают только в 75.
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Те, кто ищет в людях плохое, обязательно найдут его.
“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”
"Классика". Книги, которые люди нахваливают, не читая.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
На небесах все интересные люди отсутствуют.
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Есть люди, у которых есть деньги, а есть богатые люди.
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
Вариант: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Источник: I Shall Wear Midnight
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
Источник: Wuthering Heights
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Источник: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
“People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.”
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Контексте: A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.
“To lead people walk behind them.”
Чтобы вести людей за собой, иди за ними.
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Людям нравится, когда вы что-то из себя представляете. Предпочтительно - их точную копию.
Источник: East of Eden
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Вариант: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Всегда будьте умнее тех, кто вас нанимает.
“Hell is—other people!”
Ад - это другие люди!
Вариант: Hell is others.
Источник: No Exit
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Нельзя обвинять гравитацию в том, что люди влюбляются.
Вариант: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.