английские цитаты

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“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Цель жизни – быть не счастливым, а полезным, благородным, сострадательным, чтобы это имело какое-то значение, чтобы вы жили – и жили хорошо.

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
Это все заставляет поверить, не так ли?

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”
Незрелая любовь говорит: «Я люблю тебя, потому что ты мне нужен». Зрелая любовь говорит: «Ты мне нужен, потому что я люблю тебя».

“Hell is—other people!”
Ад - это другие люди!

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Поэзия — это лучшие слова в лучшем порядке.

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.”

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Когда мы любим, мы всегда стремимся стать лучше, чем мы есть. Когда мы стремимся стать лучше, чем есть, все вокруг нас тоже становится лучше.

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Карьера — чудесная вещь, но она никого не сможет согреть в холодную ночь.

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Нет ничего наиболее святого, чем целостность вашего собственного разума.

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Те, кто делает мирную революцию невозможной, делают насильственную революцию неизбежной.

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking”
Наш характер — это то, что мы делаем, когда думаем, что никто не смотрит.

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
Пессимист – это человек, который думает, что все такие же скверные, как он сам, и ненавидит их за это.

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Успех — это умение двигаться от неудачи к неудаче, не теряя энтузиазма.

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
Дружба — источник величайших удовольствий, а без друзей даже самые приятные занятия становятся утомительными.

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
Я знаю, куда иду, я знаю правду, и мне не нужно быть тем, кем вы хотите меня видеть. Я свободен быть тем, кем я хочу.

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
Есть мгновение... Ах, прямо перед первым поцелуем - прошептанное слово - нечто, что оправдывает всё. - Ф. Скотт Фицджеральд Источник: "По ту сторону рая"

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
Вы так громко кричите мне в уши, что я не слышу; что вы говорите.

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
Когда вы найдете свой путь, вы не должны бояться. Вам нужно иметь достаточно смелости, чтобы совершать ошибки.

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
Наказанием лжеца оказывается не то, что ему больше никто не верит, а то, что он сам никому больше не может верить.

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
Глупые вещи перестают быть глупыми, если они совершаются разумными людьми наглым образом.

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Археолог — лучший муж, который только может быть у женщины. Чем старее она становится, тем больший интерес он к ней проявляет.

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”

“Paths are made by walking”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Мечтать стать актрисой гораздо интереснее, чем быть ею.

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
Я хочу знать, что вы ходили и дышали в одном мире со мной.

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
Подумайте о своих преимуществах. Вам ведь требуется только терпение... или, если воспользоваться более прекрасным словом, — надежда.

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Мы мастера невысказанных слов, но рабы тех, кого мы выпускаем.

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
Она была рассудительна и умна, но усердна во всем; ее заботы, ее радости не могли иметь умеренности.

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“There is no perfection only life”

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Моя вина, моя неудача не в страстях,которые имею,но в недостаточности их контроля

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
Самое лучшее, что можно сделать для друга, — просто быть ему другом.

“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Способность - это то, на что ты способен. Мотивация определяет то, что вы делаете. Отношение определяет, насколько хорошо вы это делаете.

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Если мы сталкиваемся с человеком редкого интеллекта, мы должны спросить его, какие книги он читает.

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Лишь одна вещь в этой жизни меня огорчает: я не могу быть кем-то другим.

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
Гений - это ни что иное как детство, возвращенное по желанию.

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
Самая сильная любовь — та, которая не боится проявить слабость.

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
Тот, кто может терпеть неудачу, сможет добиться многого.

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
Хороший совет всегда игнорируют, но это не причина, чтобы его не дать

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Благоразумный вопрос - половина мудрости.

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
Мужчины думают, что девушки подобны книгам – если обложка не привлекает, то и читать не стоит.

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
И маленький вопиющий факт, который звучит во всей истории: репрессии работают только для того, чтобы укреплять и связывать репрессированных.

“You'll see it when you believe it.”
Вы увидите что-либо, когда поверите в это.