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William Shakespeare foto

“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”
Všichni jsme lidé, ve své přirozenosti křehcí a schopní svého těla; málokdo je anděl.

William Shakespeare Henry VIII

Zdroj: Henry VIII

Arthur Conan Doyle foto

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
Je to skvělá věc začít život s malým počtem opravdu dobrých knih, které jsou vaše vlastní.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
George Orwell foto

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”
Vaše vlastní nebylo nic, kromě těch par kubických centimetrů uvnitř vaši lebky.

George Orwell kniha 1984

Zdroj: 1984

Gabriel García Márquez foto

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Nezáleží na tom, co se v životě stane, ale co si pamatujete a jak si to pamatujete.

Gabriel García Márquez kniha Living to Tell the Tale

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)
Varianta: Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

Anne Frank foto

“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”
Důvod proč jsem si založila deník je to, že nemám žádného skutečného přítele.

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Emily Brontë foto

“He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
A tak se nikdy nedozví, jak ho miluju. Ne že by byl tak krásný, ale protože v něm žiju daleko víc než sama v sobě. Naše duše, - těžko říct, co v nich je -, ale jsou z jednoho kusu.

Emily Brontë kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

Ray Bradbury foto

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”
Jděte na okraj útesu a skočte z něj. Cestou dolů si vytvořte křídla.

Ray Bradbury kniha 451 stupňů Fahrenheita

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Varianta: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Zdroj: Fahrenheit 451

William Shakespeare foto

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
Slova jsou snadná jako vítr; věrné přátele je těžké najít.

William Shakespeare kniha The Passionate Pilgrim

Zdroj: The Passionate Pilgrim

Helen Keller foto

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
Život je buď odvážné dobrodružství, nebo nic.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Zdroj: The Open Door (1957) This quotation is often contracted into: Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. or paraphrased: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Mark Twain foto

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Když usilujete o lásku, tak jako návnadu použijte vaše srdce, ne mozek.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Zdroj: Notebook

Ovid foto

“The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.”
Příčina je skrytá. Důsledek je však všem viditelný.

Ovid Proměny

Variant translation: The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
Book IV, 287
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Varianta: The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.

Barack Obama foto

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”
Zaměřit svůj život pouze na vydělávání peněz svědčí o nízké ambicióznosti. Chce to od vás příliš málo. A zanechá vás to nenaplněnými.

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Charles Bukowski foto

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
My všichni zemřeme, každý jeden z nás, jaký to cirkus! To samo o sobě by nás mělo přivést k tomu, abychom se milovali, ale ne. Jsme terorizováni a zploštění triviálnosti, nicota nás sžírá.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)

Jonathan Safran Foer foto

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Nemůžete se chránit před smutkem, aniž byste se chránili před štěstím.

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist
Elvis Presley foto

“Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.”
Nekritizuj, čemu nerozumíš, synu. Nikdy jsi nechodil v botách toho člověka.

Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Helen Keller foto

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
To, co jsme si kdysi užívali a hluboce milovali, nemůžeme nikdy ztratit, protože vše, co hluboce milujeme, se stává naší součástí.

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
William Shakespeare foto

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Průběh skutečné lásky nikdy neproběhl hladce.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Zdroj: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

Mark Twain citát: “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
Mark Twain foto

“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
Pokud nečtete noviny, jste neinformovaní. Pokud čtete noviny, jste špatně informovaní.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed

Peter F. Drucker foto

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
Nikdo se nenaučí tak hodně o předmětu jako ten, kdo je nucen ho učit.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Leo Tolstoy foto

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Dva nejmocnější válečníci jsou trpělivost a čas.

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Marilyn Monroe foto

“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
Všem holčičkám by mělo být řečeno, že jsou hezké, i když nejsou.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Oscar Wilde foto

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Morálka je postoj, který si osvojujeme vůči lidem, které osobně nemáme rádi.

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Zdroj: An Ideal Husband

Stephen Hawking foto

“People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”
Lidé na vás nebudou mít čas, pokud jste vždy naštvaný nebo si stěžujete.

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
Oscar Wilde foto

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
Ledacos bychom odhodili, kdybychom se nebáli, že to někdo jiný zvedne.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Varianta: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Bruce Lee foto
Pablo Picasso foto

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Vše, co si dokážete představit je skutečné.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Bob Marley foto

“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
Nestojím na straně černochů, nestojím na straně bělochů. Stojím na straně Boha.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Charles Bukowski foto

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”
Lidé bez morálky se často považují za svobodnějších, ale většinou jim jen chybí schopnost cítit nenávist nebo lásku.

Charles Bukowski kniha Ženy

Zdroj: Women (1978)

Mark Twain foto

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
Nikdy jsem nedopustil, aby škola stála v cestě mému vzdělání.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Varianta: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

Woody Allen foto

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”
Život se dělí na strašný a mizerný.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Benjamin Disraeli foto

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
Tajemstvím úspěchu je účelná vytrvalost.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Zdroj: Speech at banquet of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations, Crystal Palace, London (24 June 1872), cited in "Mr. Disraeli at Sydenham," The Times (25 June 1872), p. 8.

Wallace D. Wattles foto

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
To nejlepší, co můžete pro svět udělat, je dát ze sebe maximum.

Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911) American writer
Emily Dickinson foto

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”
Psi jsou lepší než lidi, protože vědí, ale nepoví.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
George Orwell foto

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Štěstí může být dosaženo pouze v přijetí.

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Winston S. Churchill foto

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Úspěch nemá konce, neúspěch není osudem: na prvním místě je odvaha.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Attributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) by Ken Abraham and Daniel Hart, p. 224 and other places, though no source attribution is given. It actually derives from an advertising campaign for Budweiser beer in the late 1930s.
Misattributed
Varianta: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Zdroj: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/03/success-final/

Emily Brontë foto

“She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too brightly for this world.”
Byla to divoká, hříšná dívka. Pro tento svět hořela příliš jasně.

Emily Brontë kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Varianta: She burned too bright for this world.
Zdroj: The quote is attributed to Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, but only first part appears in book. https://books.google.pl/books?id=Aiye9MLNh9EC&q=wild%2C+wicked+slip#v=snippet&q=wild%2C%20wicked%20slip&f=false

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
Malování je poezie, která je viditelná, ale neslyšitelná, a poezie je malířství, které je slyšitelné, ale neviditelné.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

A Treatise on Painting (1651); "The Paragone"; compiled by Francesco Melzi prior to 1542, first published as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne (1651)
Kontext: Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

Marcus Aurelius foto

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”
Kdykoli se chystáte u někoho najít chybu, položte si následující otázku: Která moje chyba se téměř podobá té, kterou se chystám kritizovat?

Marcus Aurelius kniha Hovory k sobě

Zdroj: Meditations

Woody Allen foto

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”
Sex – největší legrace bez smíchu.

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Rick Riordan foto

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
S lidmi se pracuje obtížněji než se stroji. A když člověka zlomíte, už ho nelze opravit.

Rick Riordan kniha The Battle of the Labyrinth

Zdroj: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Pablo Picasso foto

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Ah, dobrý vkus! Jaká hrozná věc! Vkus je nepřítelem kreativity.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Henry David Thoreau foto

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
Raději než lásku, než peníze, než víru, než slávu, než poctivost; dejte mi pravdu.

Henry David Thoreau kniha Walden

Zdroj: Walden

Aristotle foto

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”
Ve všech věcech přírody existuje cosi nádherného.

Aristotle kniha Parts of Animals

Book I, 645a.16
Parts of Animals

Aristotle foto

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.”
Ti, kteří vědí, dělají. Ti, kteří chápou, učí.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

This and many similar quotes with the same general meaning are misattributed to Aristotle as a result of Twitter attribution decay. The original source of the quote remains anonymous. The oldest reference resides in the works of George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "Maxims for Revolutionists", where he claims that “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”. However, the related quote, "Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach" likely originates from Lee Shulman in his explanation of Aristotlean views on professional mastery: Source: Shulman, L. S. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15(2), 4 - 14. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1175860
Misattributed
Varianta: Those who can, do, those who cannot, teach.

Tove Jansson foto

“I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness”
Budu se muset trochu uklidnit. Jinak vybouchnu štěstím.

Tove Jansson kniha Moominsummer Madness

Zdroj: Moominsummer Madness

Hans Christian Andersen foto

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Když pták srdce začne zpívat, příliš často si rozum raději zacpe uši.

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
Marilyn Monroe foto

“The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was.”
Pravdou je, že jsem nikdy nikoho neošidila. Nechala jsem lidi oklamat se. Neobtěžovali se zjistit, kým a čím jsem byla.

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Zdroj: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
Kontext: The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.

Benjamin Disraeli foto

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”
Kouzlo první lásky je v tom, že nevěříme, že jednou skončí.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book 4, chapter 1. Often misquoted as "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end".
Books, Coningsby (1844), Henrietta Temple (1837)

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie foto

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
Samozřejmě se nebojím nahánění hrůzy mužům. Typ muže, který mnou bude zastrašen, je přesně tím typem muže, o kterého nemám zájem.

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie (1977) Nigerian writer

Zdroj: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/

Jack Kerouac foto

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Nemohl si nikam, jen všude, tak se jen dál válej pod hvězdami.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Zdroj: On the Road: the Original Scroll

Albert Schweitzer foto

“If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was”
Pokud něco příliš milujete, nechte to odejít. Pokud se to k vám vrátí zpátky, tak to tak mělo být. Pokud ne, nebylo tomu přáno.

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Viktor E. Frankl foto

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”
Svět je totiž ve špatném stavu, ale vše bude ještě horší, pokud každý z nás neudělá vše, co je v jeho silách.

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

Robert Frost foto

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Vzdělání je schopnost poslouchat téměř cokoliv, aniž byste ztratili nervy nebo sebevědomí.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Varianta: You are educated when you have the ability to hear almost anything without losing your temper, or your self-confidence.

Eckhart Tolle foto

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Uznání dobra, které už ve svém životě máte, je základem veškeré hojnosti.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Zdroj: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Whoopi Goldberg foto

“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
Jsme tu z nějakého důvodu. Věřím, že tak trochu i proto, abychom nesli malé pochodně, které lidi provedou tmou.

Whoopi Goldberg (1955) American actress
Thich Nhat Hanh foto
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“What does your conscience say? — "You shall become the person you are."”
Co říká tvé svědomí? - Staneš se osobou, kterou jsi.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Was sagt dein Gewissen?
'Du sollst der werden, der du bist.'
Variant translation: Become who you are.
It is noted here http://www.anonymityone.com/Faq97.htm, here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Become%20who%20you%20are%22+Pindar+Nietzsche&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks and here http://www.google.it/search?num=100&hl=it&safe=off&biw=1440&bih=690&q=%22%28become+what+you+are%29+after+the+ancient+Greek+poet+Pindar.+See+Ecce+Homo+%28Nietzsche%29%22 that the phrase was first used by Pindar, and was merely re-used by Nietzsche.
Sec. 270
The Gay Science (1882)

Agatha Christie foto

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood.”
Jednou z nejšťastnějších věcí, které vás mohou v životě potkat, je šťastné dětství.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Arthur Rimbaud foto

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Rozumím, ale protože nevím, jak se vyjádřit aniž bych použil pohanských slov, raději budu mlčet.

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Zdroj: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

Rabindranath Tagore foto

“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Stromy jsou nekonečnou snahou země promlouvat k naslouchajícímu nebi.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

Zdroj: Fireflies

Benjamin Disraeli foto

“Ignorance never settles a question.”
Nevědomost nikdy neřeší otázku.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Zdroj: Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)

Emily Brontë foto

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
Nezlomil jsem tvé srdce - zlomil sis ho sám; a během toho si rozbil i to moje.

Emily Brontë kniha Na Větrné hůrce

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

Robert Frost foto

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
Důvod, proč starosti zabíjejí víc lidí než práce, spočívá v tom, že lidé se více starají než pracují.

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Vincent Van Gogh foto

“… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
… A pak mám přírodu, umění a poezii, a pokud to nestačí, co stačí?

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Pablo Picasso foto

“Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.”
Umění není určeno k výzdobě místností. Je to útočná zbraň v obraně proti nepříteli.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

La peinture n'est pas faite pour décorer des appartements. C'est un instrument de guerre offensive et défensive contre l'ennemi.
La pintura no se ha inventado para adornar las habitaciones. La pintura es un arma ofensiva, en la defensa contra el enemigo.
Les lettres françaises (1943-03-24).
Quotes, 1940's

John Lennon foto

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
Láska je slib, láska je suvenýr, jednou daná, nikdy zapomenutá, nikdy ji nenechte zmizet.

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

frequently attributed to Lennon, but entirely unsourced
Disputed

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
Buďte opatrní, abyste vyháněním svého démona nevyhnali to nejlepší, co ve vás je.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Varianta: Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

Charlie Kaufman foto

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”
Jste to, co milujete, ne to, co miluje vás.

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter
Louis Zamperini foto

“The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.”
Ten, kdo odpouští, nikdy nevytahuje minulost přímo před očima druhé osoby. Když odpustíte, je to, jako by se to nikdy nestalo. Skutečné odpuštění je úplné a totální.

Louis Zamperini (1917–2014) Italian-American middle distance runner

Zdroj: Devil at My Heels

Hans Urs Von Balthasar foto

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
To, co jste, je dar od Boha vám, a to čím se stanete, je váš dar Bohu.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Zdroj: Prayer

Viktor E. Frankl foto

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
Za své slzy se nemusíš stydět, protože slzy svědčí o tom, že člověk v sobě skrývá největší odvahu - odvahu trpět.

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

Aristotle citát: “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
Aristotle foto

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
Žádná velká mysl neexistovala bez dotyku šílenství.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Jean De La Fontaine foto

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Člověk se často setkává se svým osudem na cestě, kterou se mu vyhnul.

Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.

Zdroj: Fables

Mark Twain foto

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
Pes, kterého uzdravíš, tě nikdy nekousne. To je hlavní rozdíl mezi zvířetem a člověkem.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Varianta: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Jane Austen foto

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
Pro ty, kteří jsou opravdu moji přátelé, není nic, co bych neudělal. Nemám ponětí o milování lidí napůl, to není moje povaha.

Jane Austen kniha Opatství Northanger

Zdroj: Northanger Abbey

Virginia Woolf foto

“Life is difficult; facts uncompromising; and the passage to that fabled land where our brightest hopes are extinguished, our frail barks founder in darkness, one that needs, above all, courage, truth, and the power to endure.”
Život je těžký, fakta nekompromisní a přechod do oné bájné země, kde zhasínají naše nejjasnější naděje a naše křehké kůry se utápějí v temnotě, vyžaduje především odvahu, pravdu a sílu vydržet.

Virginia Woolf kniha To the Lighthouse

Zdroj: To the Lighthouse

Muhammad Ali foto

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Nepočítejte dny, ale vytěžte z nich co nejvíce.

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Abraham Lincoln foto

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Amerika nebude nikdy zničena zvenčí. Pokud budeme trpět a ztratíme své svobody, bude to proto, že jsme se sami zničili.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

First attributed to Lincoln in 2002, this seems a paraphrase of a statement in the Lyceum address of 1838, while incorporating language used by Thomas E. Dewey (c. 1944), who said "By the same token labor unions can never be destroyed from the outside. They can only fail if they fail to lend their united support to full production in a free society".
Misattributed

Madonna foto

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
Bez ohledu na to, kdo jsi, co jsi udělal, nebo odkud jsi přišel, vždy se můžeš změnit a stát se lepší verzí sebe sama.

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Pablo Picasso foto

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Umění smývá z duše prach každodennosti.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

Quoted in: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=9EgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9, Vol. 57, nr. 11 (11 September 1964). p. 9.
1960s

Aristotle foto

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.”
Nestačí vyhrát válku; důležitější je organizovat mír.

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Oscar Wilde foto

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Nechci jít do nebe. Není tam žádný z mých přátel.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde)
Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed

C.G. Jung foto

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Jste to, co děláte, ne to, co říkáte, že uděláte.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Paulo Coelho foto
Ernest Hemingway foto

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
Přesunem z jednoho místa na druhé před sebou samým neutečeš.

Ernest Hemingway kniha The Sun Also Rises

Zdroj: The Sun Also Rises

Hannah Arendt foto

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
Milovat život je snadné, když jste v zahraničí. Tam, kde vás nikdo nezná a kde máte svůj život v rukou úplně sami, jste sami sobě pánem víc než kdykoli jindy.

Hannah Arendt kniha Rahel Varnhagen

Zdroj: Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess

Cassandra Clare foto

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Miluji tě a budu tě milovat, dokud nezemřu, a pokud bude nějaký život potom, budu tě milovat i potom.

Cassandra Clare kniha City of Glass

Jace to Clary, pg. 331
Varianta: There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.
Zdroj: The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
Had, který nedokáže svléknout svou kůži, musí zemřít. Také mysl, která nemůže bránit ve změně svých názorů; přestane být myslí.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Albert Einstein foto

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
Nikdy jsem nic neobjevil díky racionálnímu myšlení.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Ernesto Che Guevara foto

“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
Pokud se třesete rozhořčením nad každou nespravedlností, pak jste mým soudruhem.

Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary

As quoted in The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times (2005) by Teishan Latner, p. 112
Varianta: If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Giacomo Casanova foto

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
Buďte plamen, ne můra.

Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Eckhart Tolle foto

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
Primární příčinou neštěstí nikdy není situace, ale vaše myšlenky o ní.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Varianta: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Zdroj: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Joseph Brodsky foto

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
Pokud existuje nějaká náhrada za lásku, pak je to vzpomínka.

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Tom Stoppard foto

“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!”
Jsme herci - jsme opakem lidí!

Tom Stoppard kniha Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Zdroj: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Maya Angelou foto

“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
Když se učíš, uč, když dostáváš, dávej.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Nakonec člověk miluje svou touhu, a ne to vytoužené.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Beyond Good and Evil

Varianta: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Zdroj: Beyond Good and Evil

William Shakespeare foto

“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
Jaká hrozná doba, v níž idioti vládnou slepým.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Zdroj: Julius Caesar

Jean Jacques Rousseau foto

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.”
Jaká moudrost může být větší než laskavost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
C.G. Jung foto

“There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
Neexistuje žádná svědomitost bez bolesti.

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Ten, kdo vyleze na nejvyšší hory, se směje všem tragédiím, ať už skutečným, nebo vymyšleným.

Friedrich Nietzsche kniha Tak pravil Zarathustra

Zdroj: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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