английские цитаты

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“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

“These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here”

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Мне больше нравятся люди, чем принципы. А люди без принципов нравятся мне больше, чем что-либо другое в этом мире.

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
Всё, что вас возмущает и на что вы остро реагируете в другом человеке, есть и в вас.

“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”

“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
Жизнь сжимается и расширяется пропорционально твоей храбрости.

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
Я говорю со всеми одинаково, будь то мусорщик или президент университета.

“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”
Все, во что вы верите, становится вашей реальностью.

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”

“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
В любви всегда есть немного безумия. Но и в безумии всегда есть немного разума.

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”
Мои амбиции ограничены моей ленью.

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Если бы мы знали, что мы делаем, это бы не называлось исследованием, не так ли?

“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

“Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.”
Боль была хороша. Если мне было больно, значит, я не умер.

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“All language is but a poor translation.”

“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Немного искренности — вещь опасная, но абсолютная искренность просто фатальна.

“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Единственные ограничения, что у нас есть - это те, что мы создали у себя в голове.

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Ответственность - цена величия.

“When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.”

“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”
Знание не является силой, пока оно не применяется на практике.

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
Вы обретаете покой, не перестраивая факты своей жизни, а осознавая, кто вы есть на самом глубоком уровне.

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
Для кого-то вроде меня, в ком способность верить другим настолько сломлена, что я всегда ужасно робок и вечно пытаюсь прочитать эмоции на лицах людей.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Любить себя - это начало романтики на всю жизнь.

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
Давно моей аксиомой было то, что мелочи бесконечно важнее всего.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
Ошибка, дорогой Брут, не в наших звездах, а в нас самих.

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
Пока они не научатся думать, они не восстанут, но до тех пор, пока они не восстанут, они не научатся думать.

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
Не перебивайте меня, когда я перебиваю.

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
Пообещай, что никогда меня не забудешь, потому что я бы никогда не ушла, если бы думала, что ты способен меня забыть.

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Те, кто ищет в людях плохое, обязательно найдут его.

“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.”

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.”

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
Лучше всего мы лжем сами себе.

“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”

“Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.”

“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
Постоянная доброта на многое способна. Как солнце растапливает лёд, так доброта испаряет непонимание, недоверие и враждебность.

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
Воображение женщины очень быстро; оно мгновенно переходит от восхищения к любви, от любви к супружеству.

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”
Мы хотим свободы любым путем. Мы хотим справедливости любым путем. Мы хотим равенства любым путем.

“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.”
Никогда не сможешь сделать много если не можешь попробовать.

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
Каждое поколение считает себя более умным, чем предыдущее, и более мудрым, чем последующее.

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.”

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
Величайший урок жизни в том, что и дураки бывают правы.

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
Напишите твёрдо и ясно о том, что болит.

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Со свободой, книгами, цветами и луной, кто не может быть счастлив?

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
Вопрос не в том, кто мне разрешит, а в том, кто меня остановит.

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”
Нам так много нужно сказать, и мы никогда не сможем сказать это до конца.

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”
Меня зовут Шерлок Холмс. Моя работа - знать, чего не знают другие люди.

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you’ve made the effort, do the best of what you’re capable.”

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Хотя мир полон страданий, он также полон примеров преодоления страданий.

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Я могу устоять против всего, кроме соблазна.

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
Наши сомнения — это наши предатели. Они заставляют нас терять то, что мы возможно могли бы выиграть, если бы не боялись попробовать.

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”

“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
Время — есть кисть Божья, когда он рисует свой шедевр в сердце человечества.

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

“You have to be someone.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
Я не хочу, чтобы люди были очень приятными, так как это избавляет меня от необходимости их любить.

“It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Это и называется "американской мечтой" - потому как все это вы можете увидеть разве что во сне.

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
Я был столь же полым и пустым, как пространство между звездами.

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Никогда не считал, что война – неважно, насколько она необходима или оправдана, – не преступление.

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
Иди обдуманно и медленно. Кто мчится - тот спотыкается и падает.

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
То, что вы читаете, когда читать это необязательно, определяет то, кем вы будете, когда потеряете контроль над ситуацией.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Двойственное мышление означает силу одновременного удержания двух противоречивых убеждений и принятия их обоих.

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
В конце концов, лучшее, что можно сделать, когда идет дождь, - это дать ему дождь.

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
Некоторые перемены в жизни выглядят негативными на первый взгляд, но вскоре вы поймете, что в ней создается пространство для появления чего-то нового.

“I love you still,
Against my will.”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Фантастика - это правда внутри лжи.