Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

Frasi e Citazioni inglesi con traduzione | pagina 30

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

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

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

“If you want to be happy, be.”

“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.”

“The cautious seldom err.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
Mi disturba di più trovare uomini di bassa morale, ingiusti o egoisti che vedere scimmie maliziose, lupi selvaggi, o l'avvoltoio vorace.“ — Molière

“If my mind can conceive it; and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.”

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”

“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada…

“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.”

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
Non c’è fascino pari alla bontà di cuore.

“I love Humanity but I hate humans”

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
Non potevano esserci due cuori così aperti, ne sapori così simili, ne sentimenti così in risonanza Nota: l'uso di "unison" nella citazione implica qualcosa in uguale, come la similutudine dei sapori o l'apertura dei cuori. Viene usata "risonanza" per tenere la metafora suono-sentimento che l'autrice pone

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
Se avessi rispettato tutte le regole, non sarei arrivata da nessuna parte.

“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
Sappiamo tutti che è un uomo orgoglioso e spiacevole; ma questo non sarebbe nulla se ti piacesse davvero.

“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
Odio sentirti parlare di tutte le donne come se fossero belle signore invece di creature razionali. Nessuno di noi vuole essere in acque calme per tutta la vita.

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

“If it turns out that there is a God… the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.”

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe… but not for us.”

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”

“Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily”

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”

“Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.”

“About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Fino ad ora, sulla morale ho appreso soltanto che una cosa è morale se ti fa sentire bene dopo averla fatta, e che è immorale se ti fa star male.

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Nessuno ha commesso un errore più grande di colui che non ha fatto nulla perché poteva fare solo poco.

“The time is always right to do what’s right.”

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,”

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”

“Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Fanatico è colui che non può cambiare idea e non intende cambiare argomento.

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
Non ho il piacere di capirti.

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Non c'è nessun amico più leale di un libro.

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”

“The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.”

“At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.”

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

“The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“9) Ethics change with technology.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”

“Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
Solo vivere non basta ", disse la farfalla," bisogna avere il sole, la libertà e un piccolo fiore.

“What hath night to do with sleep?”