английские цитаты

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“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
Мир опасен не потому, что некоторые люди творят зло, но потому, что некоторые видят это и ничего не делают.

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
Cлушай многих, говори с несколькими.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Оставаться собой в мире, который постоянно пытается сделать вас чем-нибудь другим, — величайшее достижение.

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
Возьмите за правило никогда не давать ребенку книгу, которую вы не прочитали бы сами.

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Смех — неплохое начало для дружбы, и смехом же хорошо её закончить.

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Я люблю работу, она очаровывает меня.Я могу сидеть и смотреть на неё часами.

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
Наиболее интересная информация поступает от детей, потому что они рассказывают все, что знают, а затем останавливаются.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Комната без книг - это как тело без души.

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Никто не может заставить вас чувствовать себя хуже без вашего согласия.

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
Перед человечеством стоит выбор между свободой и счастьем, и для большей части человечества счастье важнее.

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
Того, кто знаком со штормом, подташнивает от штиля.

“A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”
Хороший девиз, которым стоит жить: «Всегда старайся не быть убитым".

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Художник без таланта - ничто, но без труда и талант - ничто.

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”
Последовательность является отличительной чертой невообразимого.

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

“What worries you, masters you.”
То, что вас беспокоит, управляет вами.

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Если вы сможете заставить девушку смеяться, то вы сможете делать с ней все, что угодно.

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”
Первое, что мы сделаем, давайте убьем всех юристов.

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
Если кто-то предаст тебя однажды, это его вина; если он предаст тебя снова, это твоя вина.

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
В жизни бывают только две настоящие трагедии: одна — когда не получаешь того, чего хочешь, а вторая — когда получаешь.

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Есть единственная в мире вещь, которая хуже, чем то, что о тебе говорят: эта вещь — то, что о тебе не говорят.

“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
Счастье не цель … это побочный продукт хорошо прожитой жизни.

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Make today worth remembering.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
Жизнь человека имеет ценность до тех пор, пока он приписывает ценность жизни других.

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
Плывите по течению, что бы ни случилось, и позвольте своему разуму быть свободным: Оставайтесь сосредоточенным, принимая все, что вы делаете. Это первостепенно.

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”
Преимущество плохой памяти состоит в том, что одними и теми же хорошими вещами можно несколько раз наслаждаться впервые.

“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”
Женщины как чайные пакетики. Вы никогда не знаете, насколько они сильны, пока не положите их в горячую воду.

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Большинство людей слушают не с целью понять, но с целью ответить.

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Разлука укрепляет чувства.

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
Бросить курить проще всего на свете. Я знаю, потому что я делал это тысячи раз.

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Если бы вы могли пнуть по заднице человека, ответственного за большинство своих проблем, вы бы не сидели месяц

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
Мне не о чем заявить, кроме своей гениальности.

“The real world is where the monsters are.”

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Опыт — это имя, которое каждый даёт своим ошибкам.

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
Те, кто контролируют свои желания, делают это потому, что их желания достаточно слабы, чтобы их можно было контролировать.

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Я люблю свиней. Собаки смотрят на нас снизу вверх. Кошки смотрят на нас сверху вниз. Свиньи смотрят на нас как на равных.

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Ты такой смелый и тихий, я забываю, что ты страдаешь.

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life”

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”
Моя музыка будет жить вечно. Может быть глупо говорить это, но когда я знаю факты, я могу их сказать. Моя музыка будет жить вечно.

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
Просто помни, малыш, ты можешь вернуть украденый миллион долларов быстрее, чем слово, которое ты дал.

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Задача жизни не в том, чтобы быть на стороне большинства, а в том, чтобы жить согласно с внутренним, сознаваемым тобой законом.

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
У меня есть глубоко скрытое и невнятное желание чего-то за пределами повседневной жизни.

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
Самое приятное чувство в мире - это сделать доброе дело анонимно, и пусть кто-нибудь узнает.

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”
Рыцарь знаний должен уметь не только любить своих врагов, но и ненавидеть своих друзей.

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
Половина мира составляют люди, которым есть, что сказать, но они не могут, другую половину — люди, которым нечего сказать, но они все говорят.

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
Успех приходит от осознания того, что вы сделали все возможное, чтобы стать лучше, того, на что вы способны.

“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
В наше время люди знают цену всему и ценность ничего.

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
Не будучи в силах свершить великое, свершай малое великим способом.

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
Мужество - это не обладание силой, чтобы продолжать; а продолжать, когда у тебя уже нет сил.

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Любовь - это состояние, в котором счастье другого человека необходимо для вас самого.

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
Обстоятельства часто можно изменить, изменив свое отношение к ним.