Frases y citas en inglés

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“Every woman is a rebel.”

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Tener estilo es saber quién eres, lo que quieres decir, y que no te importe un comino.

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
Que otros alaben los tiempos antiguos; yo me alegro de haber nacido en estos.

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvidó mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
Dedo palabra al dolor: el dolor que no habla gime en el corazón hasta que lo rompe.

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Siempre haz lo correcto. Gratificara a la mitad de la humanidad y asombrará a la otra.

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Casi todas las personas son tan felices como se deciden a serlo.

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
¿Acaso no destruimos a nuestros enemigos cuando los hacemos amigos nuestros?

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Deseo, al igual que todos los demás, ser totalmente feliz; pero, al igual que todos los demás, tiene que ser a mi manera.

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Mi Mejor Amigo es una persona que me dará un libro que no he leído.

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Fui a recoger las pocas pertenencias que aún consideraba invaluables: mi gato, mi determinación a viajar y mi soledad.

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
No conocía nada más que sombras y yo las creía reales.

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Como llegan lejos los rayos de aquella pequeña bujía, así brilla una buena acción en un mundo salvaje.

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
Prefiero arrepentirme de las cosas que he hecho, que lamentarme de las cosas que no he hecho.

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
El tiempo se lo lleva todo; quieras o no.

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
No seas 'un escritor'. Sé escribiendo.

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Tenemos que vivir juntos como hermanos o perecer juntos como necios.

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
La música hace que uno se sienta tan romántico, al menos siempre pone a uno de los nervios, que es lo mismo hoy en día.

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
¿Cómo tener confianza en una mujer que le dice a uno su verdadera edad? Una mujer capaz de decir esto es capaz de decirlo todo.

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
El objetivo de la vida es el propio desarrollo. Entender perfectamente la naturaleza de uno mismo, que es para lo que estamos aquí cada uno de nosotros''.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
"Bebé", le dije. "Soy un genio pero nadie lo sabe más que yo".

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Un hueso para el perro no es caridad. La caridad es el hueso compartido con el perro cuando estás tan hambriento como el perro.

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Todo pensador profundo tiene más miedo de ser comprendido que de no ser comprendido.

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
No escuches con maldad, no hables con maldad y tampoco serás invitado a fiestas.

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
Dios os ha dado una cara y vosotros os hacéis otra.

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
Todos estamos rotos, así es como entra la luz.

“Independence is happiness.”

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Lo que la mente del hombre puede concebir y creer, es lo que la mente del hombre puede lograr!

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Pocas personas son capaces de expresar con ecuanimidad opiniones que difieren de los prejuicios de su entorno social. La mayoría de las personas son hasta incapaces de formar tales opiniones.

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Considero más valiente al que conquista sus deseos que al que conquista a sus enemigos, ya que la victoria más dura es la victoria sobre uno mismo.

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
Es primavera de nuevo. La tierra es como un niño que se sabe los poemas de memoria

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
Oh, no quiero decir que seas guapo, no como la gente piensa de guapo. Tu cara parece amable. Pero tus ojos - son hermosos. Son salvajes, locos, como un animal que se asoma desde un bosque en llamas.

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Cuán vano es sentarse a escribir cuando aún no te has levantado para vivir.

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”