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“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed
Noah Brooks, scribe for the Sacramento Union, writing in the Harper’s Weekly for July 1865, 3 months after Lincoln had died, reported that the Lincoln once said this, at an unspecified date; as reported in "Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?" by James M. Cornelius, The Daily Beast (9 August 2012) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/08/did-abraham-lincoln-actually-say-that-obama-quote.html
Posthumous attributions
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Мы боимся слишком сильно заботиться, потому что боимся, что другому человеку все равно.
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
Вынося суждения, вы определяете не других, но себя.
“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Дружба с самим собой очень важна, потому что без нее нельзя дружить с кем-либо еще в мире.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Мы все должны начать жить, прежде чем мы станем слишком старыми. Жить страхом глупо. Как и сожалеть.
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
The Stakes of Diplomacy http://books.google.com/books?id=cyFMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Where+all+think+alike+no+one+thinks+very+much%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage (1915)
“"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)
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Единственный человек, который не делает ошибок, это человек, который никогда ничего не делает.
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html
1900s
“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
Я не антисоциальный. Я просто не социальный.
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
Я помню, как проснулся однажды утром и обнаружил, что все испачкано цветом забытой любви.
Источник: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Учеба без желания портит память, и она ничего не сохраняет в себе.
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Жизнь состоит не в том, чтобы найти себя. Жизнь состоит в том, чтобы создать себя.
Вариант: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Бесконечная бессмертная любовь, что сияет вокруг меня как миллион солнц, — она снова и снова зовёт меня сквозь Вселенную.
“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.”
Если вы не знаете, куда идете, любая дорога приведет вас туда.
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Мы должны быть свободными не потому, что мы требуем свободы, а потому, что мы ее практикуем.
Источник: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
У меня столько же влияния, сколько у Папы Римского, просто в это верит не так много людей.
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Образование – замечательное дело, надо лишь хоть иногда вспоминать о том, что ничему, что стоит знать, научить невозможно.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
14.
Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Источник: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Я никогда не почувствую себя обязанным верить, что тот самый бог, который наградил нас чувством, разумом и интеллектом предназначил нам отказаться от использования всего этого.
Вариант: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Источник: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Контексте: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Контексте: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.<!-- ¶22
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Горацио, на Небесах и на Земле больше вещей, чем вы мечтали в вашей философии.
Источник: Hamlet
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
В вашем теле больше мудрости, чем в глубочайшей вашей философии.
Источник: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
Все, что просто стоит денег, дешево.
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
Все в мире о сексе, кроме секса. Секс - это сила.
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
Источник: Fledgling
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
Лучше быть Владыкой Ада, чем слугою Неба!
Вариант: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Источник: Paradise Lost
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
“We are our choices.”
Мы - это те выборы, которые делаем в жизни.
II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Источник: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Дорога в ад вымощена наречиями.
Источник: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
Хотя это будет безумием, но есть метод в разуме.
Источник: Hamlet
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Любовь похожа на дружбу, охваченную огнем. Вначале это - пламя, такое красивое, часто - пылающее и яростное, но пока оно лишь взметается и вспыхивает. С годами любовь становится старше, взрослеют наши сердца, и любовь уже походит на угли - пламенеющие в своей глубине и неугасимые.
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
Если ты хочешь держать что-то в секрете, ты также должен это спрятать и от себя.
Вариант: For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
Источник: 1984
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ
1950s
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Это был холодный солнечный день в апреле, и часы били тринадцать.
Источник: 1984
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Хорошая жизнь или плохая, все равно является жизнью; вы отчетливо понимаете это только тогда, когда вам приходится ею рисковать.
Источник: The Black Obelisk
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Я люблю играть. Это намного более реально, чем жизнь.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Я не хочу быть во власти своих эмоций. Я хочу использовать их, наслаждаться ими и доминировать над ними.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”
Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé.
"Causerie" [Conversation] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Causerie
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
Источник: Les Fleurs du Mal
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”
Некоторые люди ходят к священникам; другие к поэзии; Я своим друзьям.
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Звезды, огонь свой скройте; Не дайте свету увидать мои таимые и черные страстишки.
Источник: Macbeth
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
Никому не дано права пускать по ветру ваши мечты.
“[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
В молодости молодость не оценишь.
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Источник: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Каждый из нас - ангел с единственным крылом, и мы можем летать только опираясь друг на друга.
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
Вы говорите бесконечное количество ничего.
Источник: The Merchant of Venice
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
Чтение хороших книг — это разговор с самыми лучшими людьми прошедших времен, и притом такой разговор, когда они сообщают нам лучшие свои мысли.
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
Личность - это не что-то уже готовое, а то, что пребывает в постоянном формировании, когда мы делаем выбор.
“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”
Источник: Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Контексте: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Источник: Tomás R. Villasante (1994), Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264.
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Человек может быть самим собой только пока он один; и если он не любит одиночество, он не будет любить свободу; ведь только когда он один, он действительно свободен.
Источник: Essays and Aphorisms
“Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops.”
Везде, где есть принудительная ортодоксальность - или даже две ортодоксальности, как это часто бывает, - нет места хорошей литературе.
"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Источник: 1984
Контексте: Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands. But to be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. The mere prevalence of certain ideas can spread a kind of poison that makes one subject after another impossible for literary purposes. Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops. This was well illustrated by the Spanish civil war. To many English intellectuals the war was a deeply moving experience, but not an experience about which they could write sincerely. There were only two things that you were allowed to say, and both of them were palpable lies: as a result, the war produced acres of print but almost nothing worth reading.
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Публика чудесно терпима. Это прощает все, кроме гения.
Источник: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
Одними из худших ошибок в моей жизни были стрижки
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Источник: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Всегда будь поэтом, даже в прозе.
“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
Чтобы эффективно общаться, мы должны осознать, что все мы отличаемся друг от друга в том, как мы воспринимаем мир, и использовать это понимание в качестве руководства для нашего общения с другими людьми.
Вариант: To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Источник: Unlimited Power (1986), p. 237
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Источник: The Truth
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
На небесах все интересные люди отсутствуют.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
И теперь, когда тебе не нужно быть идеальным, ты можешь быть хорошим.
Источник: East of Eden
“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
“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
“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.”
Источник: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 9 : The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought
“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
In Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft
Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ-xgfJkNNgC&pg=PA89&dq=%22There+is+only+one+tragedy+in+the+end,+not+to+have+been+a+saint%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIrLb4nOL6yAIVhjk-Ch1XSQVB#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20only%20one%20tragedy%20in%20the%20end%2C%20not%20to%20have%20been%20a%20saint%22&f=false
“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)
“No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.”
Неспособный подчиняться, не способен и руководить.
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 15, line 4
Compare with the following : No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471).
Moral Essays
Online tweet, in response to an extremely depressed person contemplating https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up%2F suicide, as quoted in "J.K. Rowling Sends Beautiful Message to Fan Who Wants to 'Finally Give Up'" by Alex Ungerman ET Online (5 May 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up/
2010s
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
Каждый человек создан для какой-то определенной работы, и желание этой работы вложено в каждое сердце.
As quoted in Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 75
On temptation - "'ATTRIBUTING THE SATELLITES SUCCESS TO ME IS BLASPHEMY' – T.B. JOSHUA" http://www.modernghana.com/print/247180/1/attributing-the-satellites-success-to-me-is-blasph.html Modern Ghana (November 4 2009)
