английские цитаты

английские цитаты с переводом | страница 10

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Прекрасно начинать жизнь с небольшого количества действительно хороших книг, которые являются вашими собственными.

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
В жизни важно не то, что с тобой происходит, а то, что ты помнишь и как ты это помнишь.

“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”

“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Подойди к краю обрыва и спрыгни. Сделай себе крылья по пути вниз.

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Слова легки, как ветер; Верных друзей трудно найти.

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Жизнь - это либо смелое приключение, либо ничего.

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Когда вы в поиске любви, приманивайте ее сердцем, а не мозгом.

“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Causa latet, vis est notissima

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Мы все умрем, все мы, что за цирк! Одно только это должно заставить нас любить друг друга, но не может. Мы напуган и раздавлены мелочами, ничтожные вещи пожирают нас изнутри.

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Не критикуй то, что не понимаешь, сынок. Ты никогда не был в шкуре этого человека.

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
Мы никогда не сможем потерять то, чем когда-то наслаждались и любили так сильно, потому что все, что мы так сильно любим, становится частью нас.

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Курс истинной любви никогда не проходил гладко.

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
Если вы не читаете газет — вы неинформированы. Если вы читаете газеты — вы дезинформированы.

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
Всем маленьким девочкам нужно сказать, что они красивые, даже если это не так.

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Строгая мораль — это всего лишь наше отношение к тем людям, которые не нравятся нам.

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Есть много вещей, которые мы хотели бы выбросить, но боимся, что другие могут их забрать.

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Всё, что можно вообразить — реально.

“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
Я не за зло, но я и не за добро, я за Бога.

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”
Люди без морали часто считали себя более свободными, но в основном им не хватало способности чувствовать ненависть или любовь.

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Я никогда не позволял школе вмешиваться в моё образование.

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Счастье существует лишь когда есть принятие.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Успех — не окончателен, неудачи — не фатальны, значение имеет лишь мужество продолжать.

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
Живопись – это поэзия, которую видят, а поэзия – это живопись, которую слышат.

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
Секс — самое забавное из всего того, чем я мог заниматься без смеха.

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Вместо любви, денег и славы, скажи мне правду.

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Когда птица сердца начинает петь, слишком часто разумнее закрыть ей уши.

“The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was.”
Правда в том, что я никогда никого не обманывала. Я позволила людям обмануть себя. Они не удосужились узнать, кем и чем я была.

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Ехать было некуда, но везде, так что продолжайте катиться под звездами.

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
Мир в ужасном состоянии, и все станет еще хуже, если каждый из нас не сделает все возможное.

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Образование — это способность выслушивать что угодно, не теряя самообладания и самоуважения.

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Признание всего хорошего что вы уже имеете в жизни, является основой изобилия во всем остальном.

“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Что говорит твоя совесть? - "Стань тем, кто ты есть."

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Деревья - это бесконечные попытки Земли обратиться к слушающим ее небесам.

“Ignorance never settles a question.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Причина, по которой беспокойство убивает больше людей, чем работа, состоит в том, что люди заботятся больше, чем работают.

“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
… а потом у меня есть природа, искусство и поэзия, и если этого недостаточно, то чего достаточно?

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
Любовь - это обещание, это сувенир, однажды подаренный, никогда не забываемый: не позволяй ему исчезнуть.

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

“The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
Не нужно стыдиться слез, они свидетельство того, что человек обладает величайшим мужеством - мужеством страдать.

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
Не было еще ни одного великого ума без примеси безумия.

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Мы встречаем свою судьбу на пути, который избираем, чтобы уйти от нее.

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
Собака, которую вы лечите, никогда не укусит вас. Это главное различие между животным и человеком.

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Я бы ничего не сделал для тех, кто действительно мои друзья. Я не имею понятия любить людей пополам, это не моя натура.

“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.”

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Не считай дни, веди отсчет оставшихся дней.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Америка никогда не падёт от внешнего вторжения; если мы оступимся и лишимся свободы, это произойдёт лишь по нашей вине.

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Я не хочу идти в рай. Никого из моих друзей там нет.

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”
Когда мы любим, мы всегда стремимся стать лучше, чем мы ... Когда мы стремимся стать лучше, чем мы есть, все вокруг нас тоже становится лучше.

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Невозможно убежать от себя, поменяв место пребывания.

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
Змея, которая не может отбросить свою кожу, умирает. Так же, и умы, которым не под силу изменить свое мнение; перестают быть умами.

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
Если у вас начинается дрожь негодования при каждой несправедливости, то вы мой товарищ.

“Be the flame, not the moth.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Основная причина несчастья - не сама ситуация, но ваши мысли о ней.

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
В конечном счете, это желание, а не желаемое, что мы любим.

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
Какая ужасная эпоха в которой идиоты управляют слепыми.

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Он взбирается на высочайшие горы, смеясь над всеми трагедиями, реальными или вымышленными