
“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”
Variante: The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Esplora citazioni e frasi inglesi ben noti e utili. Frasi in inglese con traduzioni.
“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”
Variante: The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
“What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”
“The best way to know the soul of another country is to read its literature.”
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Ti amo come si amano certe cose oscure, segretamente, tra l’ombra e l’anima.
Variante: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Origine: 100 Love Sonnets
“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
I capitalisti potranno tirarsi fuori da qualsiasi crisi, finché riusciranno a farla pagare ai lavoratori.
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
Posso scrivere il poema più triste di tutti stasera. L'amavo e qualche volta anche lei amava me.
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
Educare una persona nella mente ma non nella morale è educare una minaccia alla società.
“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
È meglio morire combattendo per la libertà, piuttosto che essere un prigioniero per tutti i giorni della vita.
“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.”
Ho messo il cuore e l'anima nel mio lavoro, e ho perso la testa nel processo.
“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
Disputed
Origine: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Ciò che sappiamo è una goccia, ciò che ignoriamo è un oceano.
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Contesto: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
As quoted in Journal of France and Germany (1942–1944) by Gilbert Fowler White, in excerpt published in Living with Nature's Extremes: The Life of Gilbert Fowler White (2006) by Robert E. Hinshaw, p. 62. From the context http://books.google.com/books?id=_2qfZRp9SeEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false it seems that White did not specify whether he had heard Einstein himself say this or whether he was repeating a quote that had been passed along by someone else, so without a primary source the validity of this quote should be considered questionable.
Some have argued that elsewhere Einstein defined a "miracle" as a type of event he did not believe was possible—Einstein on Religion by Max Jammer (1999) quotes on p. 89 from a 1931 conversation Einstein had with David Reichinstein, where Reichinstein brought up philosopher Arthur Liebert's argument that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics might allow for the possibility of miracles, and Einstein replied that Liebert's argument dealt "with a domain in which lawful rationality [determinism] does not exist. A 'miracle,' however, is an exception from lawfulness; hence, there where lawfulness does not exist, also its exception, i.e., a miracle, cannot exist." ("Dort, wo eine Gesetzmässigkeit nicht vorhanden ist, kann auch ihre Ausnahme, d.h. ein Wunder, nicht existieren." D. Reichenstein, Die Religion der Gebildeten (1941), p. 21). However, it is clear from the context that Einstein was stating only that miracles cannot exist in a domain (quantum mechanics) where lawful rationality does not exist. He did not claim that miracles could never exist in any domain. Indeed, Einstein clearly believed, as seen in many quotations above, that the universe was comprehensible and rational, but he also described this characteristic of the universe as a "miracle". In another example, he is quoted as claiming belief in a God, "Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world."
As quoted in From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter (1993) by David T. Dellinger, p. 418
Disputed
Variante: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Variante: There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.
1900s
Variante: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.”
Origine: I Am Ozzy
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Origine: The Ladies' Paradise
“We believe in each other, that's enough for me.”
On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People
Contesto: All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”
“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
Variante: Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Variante: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
Letter http://www.eapoe.org/works/letters/p4801040.htm to George W. Eveleth, Jan. 4, 1848.
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”
Non riesci a trovare le strade giuste quando le strade sono asfaltate.
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Tutto arriva a chi sa aspettare, ma solo le cose lasciate da chi si è già dato da fare.
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Quando mi innamorerò, sarà per sempre.
Origine: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variante: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Variante: The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
Also found with the alternative spelling: Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end
Found anonymously on Usenet in 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.support.divorce/gKiyfcAYreo/jjuc6KTu_NAJ. First known attribution to Lennon is from 2011 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=stow-ma-apple-barn/45MNk9KiGsY/vaq6pr8hgI0J.
Disputed
Variante: Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.
“Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
As quoted in Wise Guys : Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men (2005) by Allan Zullo, p. 36
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”
Sometimes credited to Jack Kerouac, from his book The Dharma Bums. It is not a quote by Kerouac. It first appeared as a very brief description of The Dharma Bums in Esquire's list of "The 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read" in 2010: http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g96/80-books/?slide=71. It was later copied by Kilburn Hall in his list of 30 "Books and Authors Every Man Should Read" which he first posted online in 2012: https://kilburnhall.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/the-books-and-authors-every-man-should-read/
Misattributed
“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
L'uomo vero vuole due cose: pericolo e gioco. Per questo motivo vuole la donna, come il più pericoloso dei giochi.
Variante: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Origine: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Attributed to Aristotle in Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth http://books.google.gr/books?id=2HPUAAAAMAAJ&q=, Deseret Book Company, 1959, p. 52, and in American Opinion, Volume 24 http://books.google.gr/books?id=irofAQAAMAAJ&q=, Robert Welch, Inc., 1981, p. 23. Possibly a discombobulation http://publicnoises.blogspot.fi/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html of the Nicomachean Ethics Book I, 1094b.24 quote above.
Disputed
Origine: Metaphysics
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Origine: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
Perdona i tuoi nemici, ma non dimenticarti mai i loro nomi.
As quoted in Mayor (1984) by Ed Koch
Attributed
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
Origine: Small Gods
“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Scegli una persona pigra per fare un lavoro difficile. Perché una persona pigra troverà un modo facile per farlo.
Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Origine: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Devi forzarti a fare ciò che ritieni di non essere in grado di fare.
Origine: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Contesto: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
The Cancer Journals, Special Edition, Aunt Lute Books, San Francisco, CA, 1997, p. 13.
“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
L'unica persona che si può ritenere istruita è quella che ha imparato come si fa ad imparare - e a cambiare.
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
“War is over… If you want it.”
La guerra e 'finita se lo vuoi.
As quoted in The Wilson Era; Years of War and After, 1917–1923 (1946) by Josephus Daniels, p. 624. Referenced in "Bartleby.com" http://www.bartleby.com/73/1288.html
1920s and later
“Love is friendship set to music.”
L'amore è amicizia messa in musica.
“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Variante: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Origine: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Origine: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
Non sto dicendo che cambierò il mondo, ma garantisco che scatenerò il cervello che cambierà il mondo.
Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.
Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae
De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers.”
Origine: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/interview-maryam-mirzakhani-fields-medal-winner-mathematician
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Book III, ch. 23.
Discourses
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”
A volte la vita ti colpisce in testa con un mattone. Non perdere la fiducia.
2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Contesto: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”
"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Contesto: The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ”
“You just stay patient, that's all.”
Resta paziente, tutto qui.
“Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.”
“If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.”
“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”
Origine: 1984
“Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway!”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Soltanto coloro che rischiano di andare troppo lontano possono scoprire quanto lontano si possa andare.
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240
Variante: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
Origine: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.”
Origine: Love's Labour's Lost
“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
Origine: Romeo and Juliet
“You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”