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“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
Fuente: Eleven Minutes
“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
“We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.”
As quoted by Violet Bonham-Carter in Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965), according to The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 155 ISBN 0300107986
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Fuente: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Fuente: A Moveable Feast
“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
Me considero un ser humano inteligente, sensible, con un alma de payaso que siempre me obliga a volarlo en los momentos más importantes.
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
Attributed to Emerson in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56, no prior occurrence of this a statement has been located; it seems to be derived from one which occurs in The Alchemist (1988) by Paulo Coelho, p. 22: When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Misattributed
As quoted in Successful Aging : A Conference Report (1974) by Eric Pfeiffer, p. 142
Attributed
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
El progreso tecnológico meramente nos ha proporcionado medios más eficientes para retroceder.
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" in Adonis and the Alphabet (1956); later in Collected Essays (1959), p. 293
Fuente: Ends and Means
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
Fuente: The Waste Land (1922), Line 25 et seq.
Contexto: There is shadow under this red rock
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
Fuente: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
¡Triste época la nuestra! Es más fácil desintegrar un átomo que un prejuicio.
Variante: What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
Llega un momento en el que te miras al espejo y te das cuenta de que lo que ves es todo lo que serás. Y luego lo aceptas. O te suicidas. O dejas de mirarte en espejos.
“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”
Fuente: Pride and Prejudice
“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
No hay fuego ni frío que pueda desafiar a lo que un hombre guarda entre los fantasmas de su corazón.
Fuente: The Great Gatsby
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
Malditas personas aburridas. Por toda la tierra. Propagando más maldita gente aburrida. Qué espectáculo de horror. La tierra se amontonó con ellos.
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
The virtuous is frank and open; the non-virtuous is secretive and worrying. [by 朱冀平]
Fuente: The Analects, Other chapters
“In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
As quoted in Careertracking: 26 success Shortcuts to the Top (1988) by James Calano and Jeff Salzman; though used in an address by Bill Clinton (31 March 1997), and sometimes cited to Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) no earlier occurence of this has yet been located.
Disputed
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
Qué equivocado es para una mujer esperar que el hombre construya el mundo que ella quiere, en lugar de crearlo ella misma.
Fuente: Marilyn: Her Life In Own Words
“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
El camino del exceso lleva al palacio de la sabiduría.
Fuente: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 3
Fuente: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
La vida comienza otra vez cuando llega el otoño.
Fuente: The Great Gatsby
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”
Cuando dos personas se encuentran, cada una es cambiada por la otra, por lo que tienes dos personas nuevas. Tal vez eso significa: demonios, es complicado.
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”
Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos
Fuente: The Great Gatsby
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999) http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speedofthought/default.asp
1990s
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
Fuente: The Beautiful and Damned
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Los años enseñan muchas cosas que los días jamás llegan a conocer.
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Fuente: Love and Friendship
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
Fuente: This Side of Paradise
“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”
El problema con una máscara es que nunca cambia.
11 November 1842
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Fuente: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Contexto: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Fuente: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
Fuente: Warrior of the Light
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
Fortune of the Republic (1878)
“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Espero que sea una tonta, eso es lo mejor que una niña puede ser en este mundo, una pequeña tonta hermosa.
Fuente: The Great Gatsby
“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
Fuente: Brida
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”
“Nothing happens until something moves.”
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
Los sueños se hacen realidad, si no fuese así, la naturaleza no nos incitaría a tenerlos.
Fuente: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 3
“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
No me importa vivir en un mundo de hombres, siempre y cuando yo pueda ser una mujer en él.
Variante: I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Fuente: Marilyn
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
La experiencia no es lo que te sucede, sino lo que haces con lo que te sucede.
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
Variante: Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Fuente: Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries
Contexto: The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of raw materials — in his case, experience. Now experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and co-ordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves. By a happy dispensation of nature, the poet generally possesses the gift of experience in conjunction with that of expression.
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
Fuente: Man and Superman
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”
Las cosas se ponen mal para todos nosotros, casi continuamente, y lo que hacemos bajo el estrés constante revela quiénes o qué somos.
Fuente: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”
Ch 17; Variant: All things truly wicked start from innocence.
As quoted by R Z Sheppard in review of The Garden of Eden (1986) TIME (26 May 1986)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”
Fuente: Pride and Prejudice
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”
La felicidad consiste en darse cuenta de que todo es un gran sueño extraño.
Lonesome Traveler (1960)
“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”
Fuente: Pawn of Prophecy
“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
“In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.”
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
Fuente: The Great Gatsby
“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Fuente: The Complete Essays
Contexto: No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
"Abortion"
Back in Town (1996)
Contexto: Here's another question I have. How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelet? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens... See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people. You don't see chickens hanging around in drug gangs, do you? No. You don't see a chicken strapping some guy to a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you? When's the last chicken you heard about came home from work and beat the shit out of his hen, huh? Doesn't happen... 'cause chickens are decent people.
“I love to do the things the censors won't pass.”
Variante: I love to do the things the censors won't pass.
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
Fuente: The Complete Essays
“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”