Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Non ostacolare la vita dei tuoi figli rendendogliela facile.

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Il problema non è nel morire per un amico, ma trovare un amico per cui valga la pena morire.

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
La vita è fatta per essere vissuta e la curiosità deve essere tenuta in vita. Non bisogna mai, per nessun motivo, voltare le spalle alla vita.

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Chi sa poco di solito chiacchera molto, mentre chi sa molto parla poco.

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”

“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”
Gli animali sono miei amici… e io non mangio i miei amici.

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
A che scopo dobbiamo vivere, se non per essere presi in giro dai nostri vicini e ridere di loro a nostra volta?

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“thus with a kiss I die”

“The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.”

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
La vita non è sempre questione di tenere in mano delle buone carte ma, a volte, di saper giocare bene una mano svantaggiosa.

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”

“Light tomorrow with today.”
Sii luminoso sia domani che oggi.

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
La vita di ogni uomo finisce allo stesso modo. Sono solo i dettagli di come ha vissuto e di come è morto che distinguono un uomo da un altro.

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
L'amore consiste in questo, che due solitudini si proteggono a vicenda, si toccano, si salutano.

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

“The heart was made to be broken.”
Il mondo è stato fatto per gli uomini e non per le donne.

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body”

“What's past is prologue.”

“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”

“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Non sprecare altro tempo a discutere su come dovrebbe essere un buon uomo. Sii uno di essi.

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Non amare mai nessuno che ti tratta come se fossi ordinario.

“Joy is the best makeup.”

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”

“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”

“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
Molti mi chiameranno un avventuriero, e lo sono… solo uno di un tipo diverso: uno che rischia la pelle per provare le sue verità.

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

“When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”

“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”

“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
La vita è una malattia, fratello, e la morte inizia già alla nascita. Ogni respiro, ogni battito del cuore, è un momento di morte, una piccola spinta verso la fine.

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”

“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Preferirei essere una superba meteora, ogni mio atomo esploso in un magnifico bagliore, piuttosto che un sonnolento e perseverante pianeta.

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Se il pensiero corrompe il linguaggio, anche il linguaggio può corrompere il pensiero.

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Buoni amici, buoni libri e una coscienza sonnacchiosa: questa è la vita ideale.

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Nella mia vita non ho mai invidiato un essere umano che ha condotto una vita facile; ho invidiato moltissime persone che hanno condotto vite difficili e le hanno condotte bene.

“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”

“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“I am here to live out loud.”

“In the dark, all cats are black.”

“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”

“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”

“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”
Tutto ciò che si può risolvere con il denaro è conveniente.

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”