“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
Frasi e Citazioni inglesi sulle persone
Migliori frasi e citazioni inglesi sulle persone
“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
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“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" <br class="br">Also: "If you care what people think, you will always be their prisoner" <br class="br">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. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”
Richelle Mead libro Frostbite
Origine: Frostbite
“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)
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“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.
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”
Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American television evangelist
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Tom Stoppard libro Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Origine: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Angry people are not always wise.”
Le persone arrabbiate non sempre sono sagge.
Jane Austen libro Orgoglio e pregiudizio
Origine: Pride and Prejudice
“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, …
“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)
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“"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)
“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
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
“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
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Emily Brontë libro Cime tempestose
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“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
“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.
“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…
“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
“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) <br class="br">Variante: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Horne (1917–2010) American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer
“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.