Frases y citas en inglés

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“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”
Ninguna distancia o lapso de tiempo puede disminuir la amistad de aquellos que están completamente convencidos del valor del otro.

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
El cuerpo está destinado a ser visto, no a estar todo cubierto.

“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”
Los Hombres mas sabios siguen su propio rumbo.

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.”
Lo más difícil de entender del mundo es el impuesto sobre la renta.

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
Comíamos bien y barato, bebíamos bien y barato, y juntos dormíamos bien y con calor, y nos queríamos.

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Hay personas que mientras más se haga por ellos, menos harán por sí mismos.

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
Tener poco conocimiento es peligroso, Tenerlo mucho es igualmente peligroso.

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”
Visión es el arte de ver las cosas invisibles.

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
No hay fracaso excepto cuando no se intenta más.

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
¿Por que contentarnos con vivir a rastras cuando sentimos el anhelo de volar?

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
El sexo forma parte de la naturaleza, y yo me llevo de maravilla con la naturaleza.

“I guess there are never enough books.”

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Algunos libros son probados, otros devorados, poquísimos masticados y digeridos.

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Encantado y repelido por la inagotable variedad de la vida

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Odié cada minuto de entrenamiento, pero dije "No renuncies. Sufre ahora y vive el resto de tu vida como un campeón".

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”
Un intelectual es el que dice una cosa simple de un modo complicado; Un artista es el que dice una cosa complicada de un modo simple.

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Vive en cada estación a medida que pasa; respira el aire, bebe la bebida, saborea la fruta y resígnate a la influencia de la tierra.

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“All serious daring starts from within.”

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”
El momento para reparar el techo es cuando brilla el sol

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Haz el bien a escondidas, y ruborízate al encontrar la fama.

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
Es más fácil perdonar a un enemigo que a un amigo.

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
La mayoría de las personas excelentes han alcanzado su mayor éxito solo un paso más allá de su mayor fracaso.

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

“I'm a cynical idealist.”

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
Mi alma borracha está más triste que todos los árboles de Navidad muertos del mundo.

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
Cuando alguien ha perdido mi buena opinión, perdida la tiene para siempre.

“For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Me voy a casar con mis novelas y tendré pequeños cuentos para niños.

“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.”
Sólo a través de nuestra conexión con los demás podemos realmente conocernos y mejorarnos a nosotros mismos. Y sólo trabajando en nuestro propio ser podemos empezar a mejorar nuestra conexión con los demás.

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
Nunca conocí a otro hombre que yo prefiriera ser. Y aunque sea una engaño, es uno con suerte.

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
Todo lo que una chica realmente quiere es que un chico le demuestre que no todos son iguales.

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
La poesía es lo que sucede cuando nada más puede.

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
Prefiero cantar una canción salvaje y morir en el intento, que vivir mil años vigilando mi digestión y teniendo miedo de la humedad""

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
El optimismo es la fe que conduce al logro; nada puede realizarse sin esperanza.