английские цитаты

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Фактов не существует, есть только интерпретации фактов.

“Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”
Либералы способны понять всё, кроме людей, которые их не понимают.

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Проблема не в том, чтобы умереть за друга, а в том, чтобы найти друга, за которого стоит умереть.

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Жизнь создана для жизни, а любопытство не должно умирать. По какой-то причине нельзя отвернуться от жизни.

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Я не могу поверить в Бога, который хочет, чтобы его постоянно хвалили.

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
Рассказ - это совсем другое - рассказ похож на быстрый поцелуй в темноте от незнакомца.

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
Я пошел в книжный магазин и спросил продавщицу: «Где секция самопомощи?» Она сказала, что если она скажет мне, это победит цель.

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Если человек не может наслаждаться чтением книги снова и снова, нет никакого смысла в чтении вовсе.

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
Я не люблю этого человека. Я должен узнать его лучше.

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Нужна смелость , чтобы вырасти и стать тем , кем вы являетесь на самом деле!

“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”

“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”
Животные — мои друзья, а своих друзей я не ем.

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
У вас есть великий дар молчания, Ватсон. Это делает вас совершенно бесценным компаньоном.

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Терпение и время дают больше, чем сила или страсть.

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Да, я мечтатель. Ведь мечтатель — это тот, кто находит свою тропу только при лунном свете, а наказание его в том, что он видит рассвет раньше, чем все другие.

“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
Будучи в меньшинстве, даже оставаясь один против всех, вы не безумны. Была правда и была ложь, и если вы отстаиваете правду даже против всего мира, вы не безумец.

“thus with a kiss I die”

“The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.”
Единственное обязательство в любом промежутке жизни быть верным себе.

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
Жизнь – это не всегда вопрос хороших карт. Иногда это хороший розыгрыш плохой руки.

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”

“Light tomorrow with today.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Мои слова летят вверх, мои мысли остаются внизу: Слова без мыслей в никогда не попадают на небеса.

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Жизнь каждого человека заканчивается одинаково. Только детали того как он жил и как умер отличают одного человека от другого.

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Любовь заключается в следующем: два одиночества встречаются, защищают и приветствуют друг друга.

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Я настолько умен, что иногда я не понимаю ни слова из того, что говорю.

“The heart was made to be broken.”
Сердце было создано, чтобы быть разбитым.

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body”

“What's past is prologue.”

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
То, что нас не убивает, делает нас сильнее.

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
Ребенок может научить взрослого трем вещам: радоваться без всякой причины, всегда находить себе занятие и настаивать на своем.

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
Настоящий любовник - это человек, который может взволновать тебя, поцеловав в лоб, улыбнувшись в твои глаза или просто уставившись в пространство.

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
Делай то, что велит тебе сердце, потому что как бы ты не поступил, тебя все равно будут критиковать, и конечном счете, «проклянут либо за то, что ты сделал, либо за то, что ты не сделал».

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Следует раз и навсегда положить конец дискуссиям о том, каким должен быть хороший человек, и просто… стать им.

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Никогда не любите того, кто относится к вам, как к обычному человеку.

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”

“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Если вы сможете изменить самих себя, то вы измените мир вокруг себя.

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Образование: путь от дерзкого невежества к жалкой неопределенности.

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
Многие назовут меня авантюристом, и я … только один из них: тот, кто рискует своей кожей, чтобы доказать свою правду.

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Ложное знание опаснее невежества.

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
Никто не может построить тебе мост, по которому именно ты сумеешь перейти через жизненный поток, — никто, кроме тебя самого.

“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
Жизнь добра настолько, насколько ты ей это позволяешь.

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Дело не в размере собаки в драке, а в размере драки в собаке.

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Те, кто лишают свободы других, не заслуживают её сами.

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Я предпочел бы быть превосходным метеором, каждый атом меня в великолепном сиянии, чем сонной и постоянной планетой.

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Но если мысль портит язык, язык также может испортить мысль.

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Хорошие друзья, хорошие книги и спящая совесть – вот идеальная жизнь.

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Я никогда в жизни не завидовал человеку, который вел легкую жизнь; Я завидовал многим людям, которые вели трудные жизни и вели их хорошо.

“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
У нас есть странная сила изменять факты силой воображения.

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Не читайте, как дети, чтобы развлечь себя или любить честолюбивых с целью обучения. Нет, читай, чтобы жить.

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Я с раннего возраста отказался от употребления мяса, и придет время, когда такие люди, как я, будут смотреть на убийство животных так, как они теперь смотрят на убийство людей.

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
Когда один день похож на другой, люди перестают замечать то хорошее, что происходит в их жизни каждый день после восхода солнца.

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“I am here to live out loud.”

“In the dark, all cats are black.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”
Музыка является универсальным языком человечества - поэзия их универсальным занятием и упоением.

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”

“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom

“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Здравомыслие и счастье - комбинация невозможная.

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
На самом деле я всегда придерживался мнения, что тяжелый труд - это просто прибежище людей, которым нечего делать.