Citações e frases inglesas

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“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

“We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glow-worm.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
Deve-se sempe estar bêbado. Isso é tudo o que importa... Mas com o quê? Com vinho, com poesia, ou com virtude, como você quiser. Mas fique bêbado.

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Algumas vezes um homem inteligente é forçado a ficar bêbado para passar um tempo com os burros.

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”

“A person who already displays … cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart, even in regard to animals.”

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
Chega uma hora em que você se olha no espelho e percebe que tudo o que vê é tudo o que você sempre será. E então você aceita isso. Ou você se mata. Ou você para de se olhar nos espelhos.

“Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

“Maktub" (It is written.)”

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current: in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
A estrada do excesso conduz ao palácio da sabedoria.

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”

“… and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Seus usuários mais insatisfeitos são sua maior fonte de aprendizado.

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

“You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.”
Você acredita em mentiras e acaba por aprender a confiar em ninguém além de si mesmo.

“The years teach much which the days never know.”
Os anos ensinam muito do que os dias nunca saberão.

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going”

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
Era sempre o começar a ser que ele sonhava, nunca o ser.

“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”

“What strange creatures brothers are!”

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
O Amor é a única força capaz de transformar um inimigo num amigo.

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“We are wiser than we know.”

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
Deus não o procurará por medalhas, diplomas ou posição social, mas por cicatrizes.

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
O que é uma erva daninha? Uma planta cujas virtudes ainda esperam para ser descobertas.

“Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Espero que ela seja uma tola, é a melhor coisa que uma rapariga pode ser neste mundo, uma pequena e linda tola.

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
Não posso acreditar que Deus nos colocou nessa terra para sermos ordinários.

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.”

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
Os sonhos tornam-se realidade. Sem essa possibilidade, a natureza não nos incentivaria a tê-los.

“I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.”
Não ligo de viver no mundo de um homem, desde que eu possa ser uma mulher nele.

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Experiência não é o que acontece com um homem; é o que um homem faz com o que lhe acontece.

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
Há duas tragédias na vida. Uma é a de não obter tudo o que seu coração deseja. A outra é a de obter.

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”

“Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.”

“Pardon My Sanity In A World Insane”

“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”

“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
Quando sou atacado por pensamentos sombrios, nada me ajuda tanto quanto correr para os meus livros. Eles rapidamente me absorvem e banem as nuvens da minha mente.

“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”
A felicidade consiste em compreender que tudo é um grande e estranho sonho.

“Do all things with love.”

“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

“In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.”

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
No trono mais alto do mundo, ainda nos sentamos apenas em nosso próprio fundo.

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”

“I love to do the things the censors won't pass.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
Eu cito outros apenas para me expressar melhor.

“They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Devemos aceitar a decepção finita, mas nunca perder a esperança infinita.