Frasi e Citazioni inglesi sulle persone

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Bob Marley photo

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Alcune persone sentono la pioggia. Altri si bagnano e basta.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Stephen Hawking photo

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
Le persone silenziose sono quelle che hanno le menti più rumorose.

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Laozi photo

“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

Also: "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner"
Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner"
Appears in Stephen Mitchell's rendering into English http://terebess.hu/english/tao/mitchell.html#Kap09 of Tao Te Ching chapter 9; but this is an interpretation of Mitchell's which does not appear in the original text or other recognized English translations. Repeated without attribution in Gilliland, Hide Your Goat https://books.google.com/books?id=ziJQdUzCgTIC&pg=PT98&dq=Care+what+other+think+%22you+will+always+be%22+their+prisoner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBGoVChMIpsbNzO69yAIVCU2ICh0mXwIE#v=onepage&q=Care%20what%20other%20think%20%22you%20will%20always%20be%22%20their%20prisoner&f=false, a positive thinking book published in 2013.
Misattributed

Confucius photo

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Ernest Hemingway photo

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Ernest Hemingway libro The Garden of Eden

Marita in Ch. 11
Origine: The Garden of Eden (1986)

Marie Curie photo

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist

Response to a reporter seeking an interview during a vacation with her husband in Brittany, who mistaking her for a housekeeper, asked her if there was anything confidential she could recount, as quoted in Living Adventures in Science‎ (1972), by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas
This is stated to be a declaration she often made to reporters, in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 222
Variante: In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Tom Stoppard photo

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”

Tom Stoppard libro Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Origine: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Jane Austen photo

“Angry people are not always wise.”
Le persone arrabbiate non sempre sono sagge.

Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Origine: Pride and Prejudice

Benjamin Franklin photo

“Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Oscar Wilde photo

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Solo gli ottusi sono brillanti la mattina a colazione.

Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

Mark Twain photo

“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”

Mark Twain libro Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)

Crazy Horse photo

“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”

Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief

As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Terry Pratchett photo

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

Terry Pratchett libro I Shall Wear Midnight

Variante: And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.
Origine: I Shall Wear Midnight

Emily Brontë photo

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

Emily Brontë libro Cime tempestose

Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

Emily Brontë photo

“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”

Emily Brontë libro Cime tempestose

Origine: Wuthering Heights

Rainer Maria Rilke photo

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
Ah, com'è bello stare in mezzo a persone che leggono.

Rainer Maria Rilke libro I quaderni di Malte Laurids Brigge

Origine: The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Robert Fulghum photo

“People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.”

Robert Fulghum libro All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Contesto: A six-year-old will not understand that “By and large it has been demonstrated that violence is counterproductive to the constructive interaction of persons and societies.” True. But a child can better understand that the rule out in the world and in the school is the same: Don’t hit people. Bad things happen. The child must understand this rule is connected to the first rule: People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.

Laozi photo

“To lead people walk behind them.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
John Steinbeck photo

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Alla gente piace che tu sia qualcosa, preferibilmente ciò che sono loro.

John Steinbeck libro La valle dell'Eden

Origine: East of Eden

Shirley MacLaine photo

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress

Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variante: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Jean Paul Sartre photo

“Hell is—other people!”

Variante: Hell is others.
Origine: No Exit

Albert Einstein photo

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variante: You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

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