Frasi e Citazioni inglesi

Frasi e Citazioni inglesi con traduzione | pagina 33

“Silence does not always mark wisdom.”
Il silenzio non sempre indica saggezza.

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
Il corpo è concepito per essere visto, non per essere coperto.

“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.”

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise; imagination is intelligence with an erection.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.”

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

“Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Ci sono persone che, quanto più si fa per loro, meno fanno per se stesse.

“Who said nights were for sleep?”

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.”
Conoscere poco è una cosa pericolosa. Così come molto.

“If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you're right.”

“This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)”

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
Non vi è alcun fallimento se non quello di smettere di provare.

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.”
Il sesso fa parte della natura, e io seguo la natura.

“I guess there are never enough books.”

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Alcuni libri devono essere assaggiati, altri inghiottiti, e pochi masticati e digeriti.

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
Se vuoi far ridere Dio, parlagli dei tuoi piani.

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

“Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“All serious daring starts from within.”

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
La cosa più bella del mondo è sapere come appartenere a se stessi.

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
Fai del bene di nascosto e arrossisci a vederlo divulgato.

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
Sette questa è così sottovalutata tieni la tua famiglia e gli affari completamente separai i soldi e il sangue non si mischiano come due cazzi e nessuna donna

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.”

“I'm a cynical idealist.”

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
La salvezza di questo mondo umano non risiede in nessun altro luogo che nel cuore umano, nella capacità umano di riflettere, nella mansuetudine umana e nella responsabilità umana.

“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.”

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
La mia anima strafogata di birra è più triste di tutti gli alberi di Natale morti del mondo.

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”

“For every failure, there's an alternative
course of action. You just have to find it.
When you come to a roadblock,
take a detour.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Mal giova illustre sangue ad animo che langue

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

“Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.”

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
Quando ridi, ridi come un matto. E quando ti arrabbi, arrabbiati per bene. Cerca di essere vivo. Abbastanza presto sarai morto.

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”

“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
Quello che davvero desidera una donna è trovare un uomo che le dimostri che i maschi non sono tutti uguali.

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”

“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
L'odio paralizza la vita; l'amore la libera. L'odio confonde la vita; l'amore la armonizza. L'odio oscura la vita; l'amore la illumina.

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
A volte un uomo vuole essere stupido se si permette di fare una cosa che la sua intelligenza gli proibisce.

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

“I don't do drugs. I'm drugs.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
L'ottimismo è la fede che porta alle realizzazioni. Nulla può essere fatto senza speranza o fiducia.