Frases y citas en inglés

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
La vida es para ser vivida, y la curiosidad debe mantenerse viva. Nunca se debe, por ninguna razón, dar la espalda a la vida.

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
No puedo creer en un Dios que quiera ser alabado todo el tiempo.

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Se necesita valor para crecer y convertirte en la persona que realmente eres.

“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”

“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
De tus debilidades saldrá tu fortaleza.

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”
El sufrimiento no aumenta por el número: un cuerpo puede contener todo el sufrimiento que puede sentir el mundo.

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.”

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
El hombre de mente elevada debe preocuparse más por la verdad que por lo que la gente piensa.

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”

“Light tomorrow with today.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”
El corazón fue hecho para ser roto.

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body”

“What's past is prologue.”
El pasado es un prólogo.

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
Lo que no me mata, me hace más fuerte.

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
El verdadero amante es el hombre que puede emocionarte besando tu frente o sonriéndote a los ojos o simplemente mirando al infinito.

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
Las mentes humanas están más llenas de misterios que cualquier libro escrito y son más cambiantes que las formas de las nubes en el aire.

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”

“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
Muchos me definirán de aventurero, y lo soy, más de una forma diferente de aquellos que arriesgan la piel para demostrar las propias verdades.

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”
Cuando la ley desarma a los buenos, los malos se regocijan.

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
La vida es una enfermedad, hermano, y la muerte comienza ya en el nacimiento. Cada respiración, cada latido de corazón, es un momento de muerte, un pequeño empujón hacia el final.

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
Nadie puede construirse el puente sobre el cual hayas de pasar el río de la vida; nadie, a no ser tú.

“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
La vida es tan amable como tú la dejas ser.

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
El pensamiento corrompe el lenguaje y el lenguaje también puede corromper el pensamiento.

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Buenos amigos, buenos libros y una consciencia dormida; esa es la vida ideal.

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Yo renuncié a comer carne cuando era joven y llegará el tiempo en que los hombres condenarán, como yo, al asesino de animales del mismo modo como se condena al asesino de hombres.

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“I am here to live out loud.”

“In the dark, all cats are black.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”
La música es el lenguaje universal de la humanidad - la poesía su pasatiempo y deleite universal.

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”

“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”

“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”