Frases y citas en inglés

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“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

“These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here”

“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Las personas me gustan más que los principios, y las personas sin principios me gustan más que nada en el mundo.

“You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”
La torpeza, la incapacidad humana, es el único límite de un arte.

“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.”

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”

“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
Para aprender a tener éxito, primero debes aprender a fracasar.

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”
Mi ambición está limitada por mi pereza.

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
Si supiese qué es lo que estoy haciendo, no lo llamaría investigación, ¿verdad?

“If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

“Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.”

“It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”

“All language is but a poor translation.”

“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds”
Nuestras únicas limitaciones son las que nos ponemos en nuestras propias mentes.

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
He dejado de buscar a una Chica de Ensueño, sólo quería una que no fuera una pesadilla.

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.”

“Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.”

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
Para alguien como yo en quien la capacidad de confiar en los demás está tan agrietada y rota que soy miserable tímido y siempre trato de leer la expresión en los rostros de las gente.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Amarse a sí mismo es el comienzo de un idilio que durará toda la vida.

“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
Durante mucho tiempo ha sido un axioma mío que las cosas pequeñas son las más importantes.

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
«La culpa, querido Bruto, no recae en nuestras estrellas/ Sino en nosotros, que estamos bajo ellas.»

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
Hasta que no tengan consciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Solo posponga hasta mañana las cosas con las que esté dispuesto a morir habiendo dejado sin hacer.

“Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.”

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.”
Dormía y soñaba que la vida era alegría, desperté y vi que la vida era servicio, serví y vi que el servicio era alegría.

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”
Hay amor, por supuesto. Y entonces hay vida, su enemiga.

“Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.”

“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
La imaginación de una dama va muy rápido y salta de la admiración al amor y del amor al matrimonio en un momento

“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.”

“You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.”

“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
Ojalá fuera una niña otra vez, medio salvaje, resistente y libre.

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.”

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
El disfrute en el trabajo pone la perfección en la obra.

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Con libertad, libros, flores y la luna, ¿quién no puede ser feliz?

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

“We have so much to say, and we shall never say it.”

“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”

“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
Lejos, bajo el sol, están mis más altas aspiraciones. Puede que no las alcance, pero puedo mirar hacia arriba y ver su belleza, creer en ellas y tratar de seguir a donde me lleven.

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
Si el camino que tienes delante está libre, probablemente estés en el de otra persona.

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.”

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
Un aburrido es alguien que te priva de la soledad sin brindarte compañía.

“Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you’ve made the effort, do the best of what you’re capable.”

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Aunque el mundo está lleno de sufrimiento, también lo está de la superación de éste.

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

“A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.”

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

“I can resist everything except temptation.”

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”

“The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.”

“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
El tiempo es el pincel de Dios, ya que pinta su obra maestra en el corazón de la humanidad.

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.”
Justifica tus limitaciones y te quedaras con ellas

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
El arte es la mentira que nos ayuda a ver la verdad.

“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”

“You have to be someone.”

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”

“It’s called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
Estaba tan vacío como los espacios entre las estrellas.

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
Nunca pienses que la guerra, no importa cuán necesaria o justificada, no es un crimen.

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Es lo que lees cuando no tienes que hacerlo lo que determina lo que serás cuando no puedas evitarlo.

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Doble pensar significa el poder de mantener dos creencias contradictorias en la mente simultáneamente, y aceptar ambas.

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
El deseo de tener amigos es rápido, pero la amistad es una fruta que madura lentamente.

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

“I love you still,
Against my will.”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”