Frases y citas en inglés

Frases y citas en inglés con traducción | página 20

“Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”

“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”

“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”
Sé tu mismo, los demás puestos ya están ocupados.

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”

“Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

“Religion is like a pair of shoes….. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“Nobody likes a clown at midnight”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
mientras más conozco el mundo, más convencida estoy de que jamás encontraré a un hombre al que realmente pueda amar.

“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

“Think globally, act locally.”

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

“He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.”
Recuerda siempre que tu propia resolución de triunfar es más importante que cualquier otra cosa.

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

“Number rules the universe.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
No hay truco para escribir. Todo lo que haces es sentarte frente a una máquina de escribir y sangrar.

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Detrás de todas las cosas exquisitas hay algo trágico.

“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.

“There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.”

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.”

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”

“Through the unknown, we'll find the new.”

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

“Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”

“And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”

“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”

“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”

“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.”

“Why I'm Not Where You Are”

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.”

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“True friends stab you in the front”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
El tacto es la habilidad de decirle a alguien que se vaya al infierno de tal manera que espere con ansias el viaje.

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.”

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
Querer ser otra persona es un merma de la persona que eres.

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
¿Quién, siendo amado, es pobre?

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“Once you label me you negate me.”
Una vez que me etiquetas, me niegas.

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
Tú tienes tu manera. Yo tengo mi manera. En cuanto a la manera adecuada, la manera correcta, y la única manera, no existe.

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

“The beginning is always today.”

“So much technology, so little talent.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.”

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.”

“… the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
No tienes que quemar libros para destruir una cultura. Solo haz que la gente deje de leerlos.

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.”

“Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
Me sorprendió, como siempre, lo fácil que fue el marcharse, y lo bien que se sintió. El mundo era repentinamente rico de posibilidades.

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”