Citações e frases inglesas

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“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”

“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”
O amor imaturo diz: eu te amo porque preciso de ti. O amor maturo diz: eu preciso de ti porque te amo

“Hell is—other people!”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.”

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“God does not play dice with the universe.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
(Ter) uma carreira é maravilhoso, mas você não pode enrolar-se com ela em uma noite fria.

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
Um puritano é uma pessoa que pensa que suas próprias noções de propriedade são leis naturais.

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking”

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
O sucesso é ir de fracasso em fracasso sem perder o entusiasmo.

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
Todos grandes avanços da Ciência nasceram de uma nova audácia da imaginação.

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
O que você é fala tão alto, que não consigo ouvir o que você está dizendo.

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
O castigo do mentiroso, além de ninguém acreditar nele, é ele não poder mais acreditar nos outros.

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
O arqueólogo é o melhor marido que uma mulher pode ter; quanto mais velha ela fica, mais interesse ele tem por ela.

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”

“Paths are made by walking”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Sonhar em ser atriz é melhor do que se tornar uma.

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“There is no perfection only life”

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
A minha falha e o meu fracasso não são as minhas paixões, mas a falta de controle sobre elas.

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
A melhor coisa que posso fazer pelo meu amigo é simplesmente ser seu amigo.

“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
A única coisa que lamento na vida é que não sou outra pessoa qualquer.

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Eu quero envelhecer sem cirurgias faciais. Quero ter a coragem de ser leal ao rosto que fiz.

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

“I read poetry to save time.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
A genialidade não é nada mais nada menos do que a infância recapturada à vontade.

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
Um bom conselho será sempre ignorado, mas isso não é motivo para não dá-lo.

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Uma pergunta prudente é metade da sabedoria.

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
Os meninos pensam que as meninas são como livros. Se a capa não chamar a atenção, eles não se importarão em ler o que está dentro.

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

“You'll see it when you believe it.”