“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
Fonte: East of Eden
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“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
Variante: I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Variante: 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.
Fonte: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
Fonte: East of Eden
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“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.”
Não seja muito moral. Você pode enganar-se de muitas coisas na vida. Objetivo acima da moralidade. Não seja simplesmente bom, seja bom para alguma coisa.
“Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
Fonte: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 50.
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
Fonte: Les Misérables
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
Variante: Never memorize something that you can look up.
Variante: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Fonte: Les Misérables
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Os livros são o tesouro precioso do mundo e a digna herança das gerações e nações.
Fonte: Walden
“If you want to be happy, be.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 352; this statement appears in late 20th century inspirational books, but with no known citation to original material by Tolstoy.
Disputed
Fonte: The Analects, Chapter IV
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“If my mind can conceive it; and my heart can believe it — then I can achieve it.”
Se a minha mente pode conceber isto; e o meu coração pode acreditar nisto - então eu posso alcança-lo.
Similar to a quote by Jesse Jackson, which is in turn a modification of a quote by Napoleon Hill: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
Misattributed
Fonte: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
Variante: simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".
Fonte: The Alchemist
“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”
Variante: Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Fonte: Les Misérables
“Friends… they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”
Fonte: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”
Fonte: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“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.”
Fonte: On the Road
“I love Humanity but I hate humans”
A comment of Einstein's recalled by John Wheeler in Albert Einstein: His influence on physics, philosophy and politics edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann (1979), p. 202
Attributed in posthumous publications
Variante: I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
Attributed in The Encarta Book of Quotations http://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&pg=PA305&dq=Belgenland to an interview on the Belgenland (December 1930), which was the ship on which he arrived in New York that month. According to The Ultimate Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2010), p. 18 http://books.google.com/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false, the quote also appears as "Aphorism, 1945-1946" in the Einstein Archives 36-570. Calaprice speculates that "perhaps it was recalled later and inserted into the archives under the later date." According to a snippet on Google Books, the phrase '"I never think of the future," he said. "It comes soon enough."' appears in The Literary Digest: Volume 107 on p. 29, in an article titled "We May Not 'Get' Relativity, But We Like Einstein" from 27 December 1930 http://books.google.com/books?id=T0A_AAAAMAAJ&q=%22we+like+einstein%22#search_anchor. The snippet http://books.google.com/books?id=T0A_AAAAMAAJ&q=belgenland+%22I+never+think+of+the+future%22+%22it+comes+soon+enough%22#search_anchor also discusses the "welcome to Professor Einstein on the Belgenland" in New York
1930s
The Man Upstairs (1914)
Fonte: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“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”
Fonte: Persuasion
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
“If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere.”
Se eu tivesse cumprido todas as regras, eu nunca teria chegado em qualquer lugar.
Variante: If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.”
Debaixo da maquiagem e por trás do meu sorriso, eu sou apenas uma menina que deseja o mundo
“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
"The Speed of Darkness"; this line is sometimes misquoted as "The Universe is made of stories not atoms."
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
Variante: The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
Variante: What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.
“We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”
Todos sabemos que ele é um homem orgulhoso e desagradável; mas isso não seria nada se você realmente gostasse dele.
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”
Quanto mais luz você permite dentro de si, mais brilhante será o mundo em que você escolheu viver.
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
E no final, o amor que você recebe é igual ao amor que você faz.
"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Fonte: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
As quoted in The Ring of Truth (2004) by Joseph O'Day
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Fonte: The Kreutzer Sonata
Variante: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Fonte: Persuasion
Variante: If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
“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.”
Fonte: Tempest-Tost
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
Nos seus jardins azuis, homens e meninas iam e vinham como mariposas entre os sussurros, o champanhe e as estrelas.
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
Variante: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Fonte: The Great Gatsby
“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.”
Fonte: War and Peace
“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
Fonte: The Prince
“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”
Credited to Shaw in the lead in to the mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) and other recent works, but this or slight variants of it are also sometimes attributed to W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and Oscar Wilde. It might possibly be derived from Shaw's statement in John Bull's Other Island (1907): "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
Another possibility is that it is derived from Shaw's characteristic of Mark Twain: "He has to put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang him believe he is joking."
Variants:
If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
Disputed
“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.”
Sei apenas que o que é moral é o que faz depois você se sentir bem e o que é imoral é o que faz você se sentir mal.
Fonte: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 1
“You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.”
Variante: You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Fonte: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Not found in Burke's writings. Appears to be a paraphrase of "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little." sourced to Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
“The time is always right to do what’s right.”
Sempre é hora de fazer o que é certo.
Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College (22 October 1964), as reported in "When MLK came to Oberlin" by Cindy Leise, The Chronicle-Telegram (21 January 2008) http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2008/01/21/when-mlk-came-to-oberlin/
1960s
Variante: 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.”
Fonte: Love in the Time of Cholera
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
O que seria da vida se não tivéssemos coragem de tentar qualquer coisa?
1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Contexto: 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, just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.
Letter to Adrianna Enriques (October 1921), p. 83
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
Todo homem deve decidir se andará à luz do altruísmo criativo ou na escuridão do egoísmo destrutivo.
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Um fanático é uma pessoa que não pode mudar de opinião e que não muda de assunto.
Variante: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
Fonte: Pride and Prejudice
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Não há amigo tão leal quanto um livro.
Fonte: Entweder / Oder
“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.”
pg 10
Variante: Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Fonte: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“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.”
Não acredite no que seus olhos lhe dizem. Eles só mostram limitações. Olhe com sua compreensão. Descubra o que você já sabe e verá o caminho para voar.
Fonte: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
Fonte: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 1, Nature
Contexto: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
Contexto: If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
Fonte: The Complete Fairy Tales
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
O que a noite tem a ver com o sono?
Fonte: Paradise Lost