английские цитаты

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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

“You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Знать тьму внутри себя — лучший способ справиться с тьмой в других.

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
Сделайте свою собственную Библию. Выберите и соберите все слова и предложения, которые во всех ваших чтениях были для вас как удар трубы.

“Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
У человеческой расы, было одно по настоящему эффективное оружие — это смех, перед силой смеха ничто не может устоять.

“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)”

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, he said. Have you thought of going into teaching?”

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
Если вы что-то не можете объяснить 6-летнему ребёнку, вы сами этого не понимаете.

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
Солнечный свет восхитителен, дождь освежает, ветер овевает, снег бодрит; на самом деле, не существует такого понятия как "плохая погода", есть только разные виды хорошей.

“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Я не столь молод, чтобы всё знать.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!”
Делай все что обещал, когда был пьян. Это научит тебя держать рот на замке!

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
Я бы предпочел быть маленьким никем, чем злым кем-то.

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”
Самое ценное для меня - это сон, по крайней мере, тогда я могу мечтать.

“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”

“Art is the proper task of life.”
Истинная задача жизни — это искусство.

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
В моей жизни было много поводов для беспокойства, большинство из которых никогда не случилось.

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”

“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
Как я могу идти вперед, когда я не знаю, с какой стороны я сталкиваюсь?

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
Самое лучшее в будущем - то, что оно наступает по одному дню за раз.

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“When words leave off, music begins.”

“Where's your will to be weird?”
Где твое желание быть странным?

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
Сила заключается в различиях, а не в сходствах.

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
Сначала прочитайте лучшие книги, иначе у вас вообще не будет возможности их прочитать.

“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.”
Невидимые связи - самые прочные.

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Искусство никогда не заканчивается, только оставлено.

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
Если я иногда немного переутомлен, я восполняю это, всегда будучи чрезмерно образованным.

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

“DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
Бог создал войну, чтобы американцы изучали географию.

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.”

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Я слишком увлечен чтением книг, чтобы озаботиться их написанием.

“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Выбирая между ощущением боли и ничем, я бы выбрал боль.

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”

“Friendship is Love without wings.”
Дружба - это любовь без крыльев.

“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”
Я не говорю, что все мы должны нарушать нормы. Однако мы должны выглядеть так, будто мы можем.

“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”

“Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.”
Всегда открыто признавайте ошибку. Это притупит бдительность тех, кто у власти, и даст вам возможность совершать их ещё в большем количестве.

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”

“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”

“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.”
Ценность чего-либо запомнится как количество жизни, которое оно потребовало взамен.

“There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
Мои книги подобны воде; книги великих гениев подобны вину. К счастью, воду пьют все.

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
Те, кто не рассуждают — фанатики, те, кто не могут — дураки, а те, кто не осмеливаются — рабы.

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
Глубоко осознайте, что то что есть сейчас - это все, что у вас есть. Сделайте НАСУЩНОЕ главным фокусом своей жизни.

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Это большая ошибка - строить теории, не имея сведений. Невольно начнёшь искажать факты в угоду теории, вместо изменения теории в угоду фактам.

“Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away”
Мир - это не то, что вы можете просто пожелать; это то, что вы создаете, то, что вы делаете, то, чем вы являетесь, и то, что вы дарите.

“Intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.”

“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”

“All thinking men are atheists.”
Все думающие люди — атеисты.

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
Конечно, можно любить человека, если вы не знаете его слишком хорошо.

“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
Все это так не потому, что я такой умный. Это все из-за того, что я долго не сдаюсь при решении задачи.

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.”

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
Человечество слишком серьезно относится к себе. Это первородный грех мира. Если бы пещерный человек умел смеяться, история была бы другой.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
Вера делает первый шаг, даже когда ты не видишь всю лестницу.

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
Все великие и драгоценные вещи одиноки.

“I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.”

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
Мысль, даже возможность, может разрушить и преобразовать нас.

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”

“Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.”
Скоро я найду нужные слова, они будут очень простыми.

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
Человек несет моральную ответственность за непослушание несправедливым законам.