английские цитаты

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“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
В определенный момент нашей жизни мы теряем контроль над тем, что с нами происходит, и нашей жизнью начинает управлять только судьба. Это - величайшая ложь в мире.

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
Мои вкусы предельно просты. Я легко довольствуюсь самым лучшим.

“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
Это не то, что у вас есть, кто вы есть, где вы находитесь или что вы делаете, что делает вас счастливыми или несчастными. Это то, что вы думаете об этом.

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”
В минуту, когда вы соглашаетесь на меньшее, чем вы того заслуживаете, вы получаете даже меньше, чем то, на что вы согласились.

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Людям нравится, когда вы что-то из себя представляете. Предпочтительно - их точную копию.

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
Не будьте чрезмерно моральным. Вы можете так сильно обмануться в жизни. Цельтесь выше морали. Будьте не просто хорошим, будьте хорошим ради чего-то.

“Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Жизнь всегда ждет, когда наступит какой-то кризис, прежде чем проявится в самом ярком свете.

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
Он никогда не выходил без книги под мышкой и часто возвращался с двумя.

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
Никогда не запоминайте то, что вы можете найти в книге.

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Книги - это бесценное богатство мира и достойное наследие поколений и народов.

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

“The cautious seldom err.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Неизменный признак мудрости - видеть чудеса в общем.

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
Вы не можете всегда контролировать то, что происходит вокруг. Но вы всегда можете контролировать то, что происходит внутри.

“If my mind can conceive it; and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.”
Если мой разум может понять это; и мое сердце может в это поверить - тогда я смогу достичь этого.

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Простые вещи - также самые необычные вещи, и только мудрые могут видеть их.

“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
Ни одно доброе дело не остается безнаказанным.

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
За мной ничего, всё впереди, как и всегда на дороге.

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

“I love Humanity but I hate humans”

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
Не могло быть двух настолько открытых сердец, настолько одинаковых вкусов, настолько созвучных чувств.

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
Если бы я соблюдала все правила, я бы никогда не добилась всего этого.

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
Все мы знаем, что он гордый, неприятный человек; но это было бы всего ничего, если бы он тебе действительно нравился.

“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
В конечном счете, любовь, которую ты принимаешь, равна любви, которую ты создаёшь.

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

“If it turns out that there is a God… the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us.”

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
Сострадание — основа всей морали.

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
Воздух был мягким, звезды такими яркими, каждый переулок подавал такие надежды, что мне показалось, что я сплю.

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”
Не позволяйте своему разуму говорить своему сердцу, что делать. Разум легко сдается.

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
«Они гнилая толпа», — крикнул я через газон. «Ты стоишь всей этой чертовой связки вместе взятых».

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
Самый жалкий человек в мире - это тот, у кого есть зрение, но нет видения.

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”
Если вы собираетесь рассказать людям правду, вам лучше рассмешить их; иначе они вас убьют.

“Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.”

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Я знаю, что мораль – это когда вы себя после этого чувствуете хорошо, а аморальность – когда чувствуете себя плохо.

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Никто не совершает большей ошибки чем тот, кто ничего не делает, лишь потому, что мог сделать совсем немного.

“The time is always right to do what’s right.”
Не бывает неправильного момента поступить правильно.

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
Какой была бы жизнь, если бы у нас не было смелости что-либо предпринять?

“Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,”

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Каждый человек должен решить, будет ли он ходить в свете творческого альтруизма или в темноте разрушительного эгоизма.

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Фанатик — это человек, который не может поменять взгляды и не может переменить тему.

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
Не нахожу приятным понимать вас.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Нет более верного друга, чем книга.

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”
Мужчины с Земли, женщины с Земли. Смирись с этим.

“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”
В каждый момент нашей жизни, мы все стоим одной ногой в сказке, а другой - в бездне.

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“9) Ethics change with technology.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
Если бы звезды могли являться лишь одной ночью за тысячу лет, как бы человек восхищался и преклонялся перед ними.

“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
Какое отношение ночь имеет ко сну?