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“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed”
Блажен человек, который ничего не ждет, ибо он никогда не будет разочарован.

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”
Ваша одежда должна быть достаточно узкой, чтобы показать, что вы женщина, но достаточно свободной, чтобы показать, что вы леди.

“O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”
Какую паутину мы плетём, Когда впервые пробуем обман!

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

“Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”

“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
Расстояние ничто, когда у человека есть мотив.

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Мечты- это характеристики нашей личности.

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”
Интуиция - это действительно внезапное погружение души во вселенское течение жизни.

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”
До свадьбы девушка занимается любовью с мужчиной, чтобы его удержать. После она его удерживает, чтобы заняться с ним любовью.

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
Умный человек разрешает проблему. Мудрый человек избегает её.

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Каждую минуту гнева ты теряешь 60 секунд счастья.

“It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.”

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Каждый друг представляет мир внутри нас, мир, возможно, не существовавший до нашей встречи, и только благодаря ей этот новый мир рождается .

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
Прекрасное всегда причудливо.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Если у тебя есть сад и библиотека, то у тебя есть все, что тебе нужно.

“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.”

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Быть великим значит быть неправильно понятым.

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Жизнь не подражает искусству, она подражает плохому телевидению.

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Герой не храбрее обычного человека, он просто храбрый на пять минут больше.

“Never, never, never give in!”
Никогда, никогда, никогда не сдавайся!

“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?”
Если человек с множественным расстройством личности угрожает самоубийством, можно ли расценивать эту ситуацию как захват заложников?

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
Ни один человек не знает по-настоящему о других людях. Лучшее, что он может сделать, это предположить, что они похожи на него самого.

“My friends are my "estate."”

“Sex without love is an empty experience. But as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.”
Секс без любви - это просто пустые ощущения. Но из всех пустых ощущений, эти - одни из самых лучших.

“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
Бог молчит. Теперь, если бы только человек заткнулся.

“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Жизнь - это дар, и она дает нам привилегию, возможность и ответственность отдавать что-то, черпая в этом новые силы.

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
Милосердие - это золотая цепь, которой общество связано.

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Вы хотите знать, кто вы? Не спрашивайте. Действуйте! Действие будет описывать и определять вас.

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
Я на самом деле не был влюблен, но я чувствовал своего рода нежное любопытство.

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
Если вы хотите стать истинным искателем истины, необходимо, чтобы хотя бы раз в жизни вы сомневались, насколько это возможно, во всех вещах.

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”

“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.”

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Те, у кого нет опыта, ждут вдохновения, остальные просто встают и идут на работу.

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”
Каждый из нас бывает дураком по крайней мере 5 минут в день; мудрость заключается в том, чтобы не превысить лимит.

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
самое главное, насколько хорошо ты идешь через огонь

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”

“Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?”
Какие из моих важных вещей я расскажу вам в первую очередь?

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Всегда будьте умнее тех, кто вас нанимает.

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
Уверенность - это то, что у вас есть, перед тем как вы осознаете всю проблему.

“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Не растрачивайте себя на отвержение или осуждение зла, а воспевайте красоту добра.

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”
Если вы начнете с обещания того, чего в вас пока нет, вы потеряете желание работать над тем, чтобы это получить.

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.”
Когда дружба реальна, это не стеклянная нить или морозостойкость, а самое твердое, что мы можем знать.

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
Я никогда в жизни не делал ошибок, по крайней мере, таких, которых я бы не мог объяснить потом.

“In times of war, the law falls silent.”

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
Первое и последнее, что вам нужно сделать в этом мире, это пережить его, а не разбить его.

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
Большинство теней в нашей жизни существуют потому, что мы стоим напротив собственного солнечного света.

“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”

“I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”
Я совершенно определённо женщина, и это меня радует.

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Измените свою жизнь сегодня. Не рассчитывайте на будущее, действуйте сейчас, не откладывая.

“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
Есть моменты, когда эти глаза в вашем мозгу смотрят на вас.

“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
То, что ты однажды потерпел неудачу, не означает, что ты собираешься провалиться во всем.

“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
Счастье заключается в частом повторении удовольствия.

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
Самой большой любезностью, когда-либо оказанной мне, был момент, когда кто-то спросил меня, что я думаю, и после этого внимательно выслушал мой ответ.

“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
Смейтесь часто, подолгу и во весь голос. Смейтесь, пока не начнете захлебываться со смеху.

“Joy came always after pain.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
Никто из нас не знает, что может случиться даже в следующую минуту, но все же мы идем вперед. Мы доверяем, потому что у нас есть Вера.

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
Идеи похожи на кроликов. Вы получаете пару и учитесь обращаться с ними, и довольно скоро у вас есть дюжина.