Frases y citas en inglés

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“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
No puedo entender por qué la gente tiene miedo de las nuevas ideas. Yo le temo a las viejas.

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
La vida no tiene sentido. Cada uno de nosotros tiene un sentido y lo traemos a la vida. Es un desperdicio estar haciendo la pregunta cuando tu eres la respuesta.

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time”
Un hombre que ha pasado por experiencias amargas y ha viajado lejos disfruta incluso de sus sufrimientos después de un tiempo

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”

“Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.”

“Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.”
La libertad para los lobos ha significado a menudo la muerte para las ovejas.

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ser uno mismo en un mundo que constantemente trata de que no lo seas, es el mayor de los logros.

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I am going is what inspires me to travel it.”
Veo mi senda, pero no sé a dónde lleva. No saber a dónde estoy yendo es lo que me inspira a seguir viajando.

“Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.”

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.”

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.” Fuente: https://citas.in/autores/ferdinand-de-saussure/

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
La risa no es un mal principio para una amistad y, desde luego, es la mejor manera de terminarla

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Una habitación sin libros es como un cuerpo sin alma.

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Nadie puede hacer que te sientas inferior sin tu consentimiento

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
La educación de un hombre nunca está completa hasta que muere.

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”

“A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

“What worries you, masters you.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Si puedes hacer reír a una mujer, puedes lograr que haga cualquier cosa.

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
¡Excelente!", grité. "Elemental", dijo.

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
Si alguien te traiciona una vez, es culpa suya. Si te traiciona dos veces, entonces la culpa será tuya.

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“Happiness is not a goal… it's a by-product of a life well lived.”

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Make today worth remembering.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
La vida de uno es valiosa mientras uno atribuya valor a la vida de los demás.

“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power.”

“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
Fluye con lo que sea que pueda suceder y deja que tu mente sea libre: mantente centrado aceptando lo que sea que estés haciendo. Esto es lo esencial.

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.”

“Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
La brevedad es el alma del ingenio.

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
La ausencia hace que el corazón tenga más cariño.

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
Dejar de fumar es fácil. Yo ya lo dejé como 100 veces.

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
Si pudieras patear en el trasero al responsable de casi todos tus problemas, no podrías sentarte por un mes

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“The real world is where the monsters are.”

“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
experiencia carece de valor ético. Es sencillamente el nombre que dan los hombres a sus errores.

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”

“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
En cualquier momento de decisión, lo mejor que puedes hacer es lo correcto; lo siguiente mejor, es lo incorrecto; y lo peor, es nada hacer. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
Es como si no fuera tanto lo que hace un compañero, pero es la forma en que la mayoría de la gente lo mira cuando lo hace.

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.”

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life”

“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
No necesitas a nadie que te diga quién eres o qué eres. Tú eres lo que eres!

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
La sensación más agradable del mundo es hacer una buena acción de forma anónima, y que alguien lo descubra.

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.”
El hombre del conocimiento no solo tiene que saber amar a sus enemigos, tiene también que saber odiar a sus amigos.

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
El arte no es un espejo para reflejar la realidad, sino un martillo para darle forma.

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.”

“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

“I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Hoy en día el hombre conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.

“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
El coraje no es tener fuerzas para continuar; sino continuar cuando no tienes fuerzas.

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”