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Stephen Hawking foto

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.”
Po miliony let, lidé žili jako zvířata. Pak se stalo něco, co uvolnilo sílu naší fantazie. Naučili jsme se mluvit a naučili jsme se poslouchat.

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

British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Kontext: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Jean Jacques Rousseau foto

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
Dávám přednost svobodě s nebezpečím než míru s otroctvím.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Blaise Pascal foto

“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
Příroda je nekonečná sféra, jejíž střed je všude a obvod nikde.

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Joseph Campbell foto

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Jdi za svým snem a Vesmír ti otevře dveře tam, kde dřív byly pouze zdi.

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Varianta: Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.
Zdroj: The Power of Myth

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
Sdílejme naši podobnost, oslavujme naši rozdílnost.

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Pablo Picasso foto

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Vždy dělám to, co nedokážu, abych se naučil, jak to udělat.

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

Attributed in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 132, and many places on the internet, this was actually stated by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Anthon van Rappard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthon_van_Rappard (18 August 1885) http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let528/letter.html, also rendered "I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."
Misattributed
Varianta: I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Vladimir Lenin foto

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.”
Svoboda v kapitalistické společnosti zůstává vždy stejná jako v starořeckých republikách: svobodou pro majitele otroků.

Vladimir Lenin kniha The State and Revolution

Zdroj: The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5.

Mark Twain foto

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Kdykoli zjistíte, že jste na straně většiny, je čas na reformu.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Zdroj: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393

Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Nekráčejte tam, kam vede cesta, místo toho běžte tam, kde žádná cesta není a kde můžete zanechat stopy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Oscar Wilde foto

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”
Člověk má být neustále zamilovaný. Proto by se neměl ženit.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Vincent Van Gogh foto

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
Buďte si jasně vědomi hvězd a nekonečna. Pak se život zdá být skoro jako začarovaný.

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Jack London foto

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
Divočina v něm stále přežívala a vlk v něm jen spal.

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

Zdroj: White Fang

Abraham Lincoln foto

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”
Směju se, protože nesmím plakat, to je vše, toť je vše.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Robert A. Heinlein foto

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Nikdy se nepokoušej naučit prasátko zpívat; ztrácíš čas a otravuje to prasátko.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

Theodore Roosevelt foto

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Nespouštěj své oči z hvězd a své nohy ze země.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Varianta: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
Zdroj: The Greatest American President: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

Marilyn Monroe foto

“Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
Vše, co jsme požadovali, bylo naše právo zářit.

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

Telegram, turning down a party invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (13 June 1962)

Henry Ford foto

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Pokud vždy děláte to, co jste vždy dělali, vždy dostanete to, co jste vždy dostali.

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Sylvia Plath foto

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Journal entry from July 1950 &ndash; 1953, page 63 of the original, page 55 of the collection
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Zdroj: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Thomas Hobbes foto

“Hell is truth seen too late.”
Peklo je pravda odhalená příliš pozdě.

Thomas Hobbes kniha Leviathan

Zdroj: Leviathan

Jim Morrison foto

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
Mám rád lidi, kteří ostatními lidmi otřásají a zneklidňují je.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Zdroj: Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

Alvin Toffler foto

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

- Chinese proverb”

Slyším a zapomínám. Vidím a pamatuji si. Dělám a rozumím.

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer
Rabindranath Tagore foto

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Špatně čteme svět a říkáme, že nás klame.

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

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Zdroj: Stray Birds (1916)

Gabriel García Márquez foto

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
Lež je pohodlnější než pochybnost, užitečnější než láska, trvalejší než pravda.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

Eckhart Tolle foto

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
Můžete ztratit jen něco, co máte, ale nemůžete ztratit něco, čím jste.

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

Muhammad Ali foto

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Přátelství je nejtěžší věc na světě. Není to něco, co se ve škole učíte. Ale pokud jste se nenaučili význam přátelství, opravdu jste se nic nenaučili.

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Arthur Rimbaud foto

“Eternity is the sun
mixed
with the sea”

Věčnost je slunce smíšené s mořem.

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

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
Pokud nejsem dobrá sama k sobě, jak mohu očekávat, že ke mně bude dobrý někdo jiný?

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
James Baldwin foto

“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
Ukázalo se, že peníze jsou přesně jako sex. Když jste je neměli, nemysleli jste na nic jiného, a když jste je měli, mysleli jste na jiné věci.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
Nic neposiluje autoritu tolik jako ticho.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Jack Kornfield foto

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”
Problém je v tom, že si myslíte, že máte čas.

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Zdroj: Buddha's Little Instruction Book

Jonathan Safran Foer foto

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”
Nereagování je také reakce - jsme stejně zodpovědní za to, co neuděláme.

Jonathan Safran Foer kniha Eating Animals

Zdroj: Eating Animals

George Washington foto

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
Je-li ztracena svoboda projevu, tak hloupí a mlčící mohou být vedeni jako ovce na porážku.

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Arthur Schopenhauer foto

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
Mnohdy je ztráta tím, co nás učí hodnotě věcí.

Arthur Schopenhauer kniha Parerga and Paralipomena

Meistens belehrt uns erst der Verlust über den Wert der Dinge.
Zdroj: Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

C.G. Jung foto

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Výsadou života je stát se tím, kým skutečně jste.

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

“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”
Muž s největší duší bude vždy vystaven největší bitvě s malomyslným člověkem.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Terry Pratchett foto

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
Skutečná hloupost pokaždé porazí umělou inteligenci.

Terry Pratchett kniha Otec prasátek

Zdroj: Hogfather

Martin Luther foto

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
Jestli chceš změnit svět, zvedni svoje pero a piš.

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Ray Bradbury foto

“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
Bez knihovny nemáte civilizaci.

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
William Shakespeare foto

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
Že miloval jsem dosud? Jak se klamu! Dnes vidím teprv pravou krásu samu.

William Shakespeare kniha Romeo a Julie

Zdroj: Romeo and Juliet

Henry James foto

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
V lidském životě jsou důležité tři věci. Zaprvé být laskavý. Zadruhé být laskavý. A zatřetí být laskavý.

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).

Oscar Wilde foto

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”
Jsou chvíle, kdy si člověk musí zvolit, zda bude žít sám, úplně, naplno nebo si vybere nějakou falešnou, povrchní a ponižující existenci, kterou si svět ve svém pokrytectví vyžaduje.

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan

Mark Twain foto

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
Bankéř je člověk, který vám zapůjčí deštník, když svítí slunko, a chce jej zpátky, když začne pršet.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed

Victor Hugo foto

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
Vy, kteří trpíte, protože milujete, milujte ještě více. Zemřít pro lásku, znamená žít podle ní.

Victor Hugo kniha Les Misérables

Zdroj: Les Misérables

Paulo Coelho foto

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Jste tím, čím si myslíte, že jste.

Paulo Coelho kniha Čarodějka z Portobella

Zdroj: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 152.
Kontext: You are what you believe yourself to be.
Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already. And when you doubt it — which happens, I think, quite often at this stage of evolution — do as I suggested. Instead of trying to prove that you're better than you think, just laugh. Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it. Now go back and meet all those people who think you know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.
Believe.

Thomas à Kempis foto

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
Nezlobte se, že nemůžete druhé učinit takovými, jakými byste si přáli aby byli, protože ani vy sami nemůžete být takoví, jací byste si přáli být.

Thomas à Kempis kniha The Imitation of Christ

Book I, ch. 16.
Zdroj: The Imitation of Christ (c. 1418)

Alexandre Dumas foto

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Někdy je nutné si přát zemřít, abychom poznali, jak krásné je žít.

Alexandre Dumas kniha Hrabě Monte-Christo

Zdroj: The Count of Monte Cristo

Brandon Sanderson foto

“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time… The losses are what define a man's faith.”
Je snadné v něco věřit, když neustále vyhráváte... Víru člověka definují prohry.

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Zdroj: The Well of Ascension

George Carlin foto

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
Housenka vše odedře, ale motýl slízne smetanu.

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Stephen King foto

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
Nejhorší okamžiky jsou vždy předtím, než začneš.

Stephen King (1947) American author

Varianta: The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.
Zdroj: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Kabir foto

“If you want the truth,
I’ll tell you the truth:
Listen to the secret sound,
the real sound,
which is inside you.”

Pokud chceš pravdu, řeknu ti pravdu: naslouchej skrytému hlasu; skutečnému hlasu, který je v tvém nitru.

Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
Pablo Picasso foto

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
Když jsem byl dítě, moje matka mi řekla: „Pokud si voják, stane se z tebe generál. Pokud si mnich, bude z tebe papež. “ Místo toho jsem se stal malířem, a je ze mě Picasso.

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

As quoted in Life with Picasso, by François Gilot, 1964, p. 60
1940s

Ray Bradbury foto

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”
Žijte tak, jako byste měli do deseti vteřin zemřít.

Ray Bradbury kniha 451 stupňů Fahrenheita

Zdroj: Fahrenheit 451

William Shakespeare foto

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
A popravdě řečeno, rozum a láska se dnes už moc nepotkávají.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Zdroj: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anne Frank foto

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

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

Zdroj: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

Ravi Zacharias foto

“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
Máme právo věřit, čemu chceme, ale ne všechno, čemu věříme, je správné.

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
Khaled Hosseini foto

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…”
Může to být nespravedlivé, ale to, co se stane během několika dní, někdy dokonce během jediného dne, může změnit průběh celého života...

Khaled Hosseini kniha The Kite Runner

Zdroj: The Kite Runner

Jane Austen foto

“Angry people are not always wise.”
Naštvaní lidé nejsou vždy moudří.

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
Samotné slovo "křesťanství" je omyl - ve skutečnosti existoval jen jeden křesťan, a ten zemřel na kříži.

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

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Nejlepší způsob, jak předpovědět svou budoucnost, je vytvořit si ji.

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

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”
Budoucnost je nejistá, ale konec je vždy blízko.

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”
Čeho bychom dosáhli, kdybychom věděli, že nemůžeme zlyhat?

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Steinbeck foto

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
Moc lidí nekazí. To strach ... možná strach ze ztráty moci.

John Steinbeck kniha The Short Reign of Pippin IV

The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), p. 102

Ossie Davis foto

“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
Jakákoli forma umění je formou moci; má dopad, může ovlivnit změnu - může nás nejen dojmout, ale i pohnout.

Ossie Davis (1917–2005) American actor, director, poet, playwright, writer, and social activist
Fernando Pessoa foto

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
Má duše je skrytý orchestr; nevím, jaké nástroje, jaké housle a harfy, bubny a tamburíny v sobě rozezvučuji. Slyším jen symfonii.

Fernando Pessoa kniha The Book of Disquiet

Zdroj: The Book of Disquiet

C.G. Jung foto

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Všechno, co nás dráždí na jiných, může vést k pochopení sebe sama.

C.G. Jung kniha Memories, Dreams, Reflections

ii. America: The Pueblo Indians http://books.google.com/books?id=w6vUgN16x6EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jung+Memories+Dreams+and+Reflections&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LLxKUcD0NfSo4APh0oDABg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false (Extract from an unpublished ms) (Random House Digital, 2011).
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963)
Kontext: We always require an outside point to stand on, in order to apply the lever of criticism. This is especially so in psychology, where by the nature of the material we are much more subjectively involved than in any other science. How, for example, can we become conscious of national peculiarities if we have never had the opportunity to regard our own nation from outside? Regarding it from outside means regarding it from the standpoint of another nation. To do so, we must acquire sufficient knowledge of the foreign collective psyche, and in the course of this process of assimilation we encounter all those incompatibilities which constitute the national bias and the national peculiarity. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. I understand England only when I see where I, as a Swiss, do not fit in. I understand Europe, our greatest problem, only when I see where I as a European do not fit into the world. Through my acquaintance with many Americans, and my trips to and in America, I have obtained an enormous amount of insight into the European character; it has always seemed to me that there can be nothing more useful for a European than some time or another to look out at Europe from the top of a skyscraper. When I contemplated for the first time the European spectacle from the Sahara, surrounded by a civilization which has more or less the same relationship to ours as Roman antiquity has to modem times, I became aware of how completely, even in America, I was still caught up and imprisoned in the cultural consciousness of the white man. The desire then grew in me to carry the historical comparisons still farther by descending to a still lower cultural level.

On my next trip to the United States I went with a group of American friends to visit the Indians of New Mexico, the city-building Pueblos...

Ernest Hemingway foto

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
Nesnesu pomyšlení, že můj život plyne tak rychle, až ho vlastně nežiji.

Ernest Hemingway kniha The Sun Also Rises

Zdroj: The Sun Also Rises

William Shakespeare foto

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Nic není dobré nebo špatné. To z toho dělá až naše přemýšlení.

Zdroj: Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
Není spravedlivé žádat od jiných to, co sami nechcete udělat.

http://books.google.com/books?id=EcKZ8bbMLDMC&q=%22It+is+not+fair+to+ask+of+others+what+you+are+not+willing+to+do+yourself%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1946&_f=md000366
15 June 1946
My Day (1935–1962)

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
Jakmile vyzkoušíte létání, budete navždy chodit po zemi s očima obrácenými k nebi, protože tam jste byli, a tam se budete vždycky chtít vrátit.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

This quotation was first used in print (and misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci) in a science fiction story published in 1975, The Storms of Windhaven. One of the authors, Lisa Tuttle, remembers that the quote was suggested by science fiction writer Ben Bova, who says he believes he got the quote from a TV documentary narrated by Fredric March, presumably I, Leonardo da Vinci, written by John H. Secondari for the series Saga of Western Man, which aired on 23 February 1965. Bova incorrectly assumed that he was quoting da Vinci. The probable author is John Hermes Secondari (1919-1975), American author and television producer.
Misattributed
Varianta: For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

Virginia Woolf foto

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”
Chtěla jsem psát o smrti, ale jako obvykle se do toho zamíchal život.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Kurt Cobain foto

“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
Povinností mládeže je zpochybňovat korupci.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Varianta: The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Tennessee Williams foto

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
Co je rovné? Čára nebo ulice může být rovná, ale lidské srdce - to ne - srdce je klikaté jako cesta, která vede přes hory.

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire

John Henry Newman foto

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
Dobro se nikdy nekoná jinak než za cenu obětí těch, kdo ho konají, pravda se nikdy neprosadí jinak než za cenu obětí těch, kdo ji šíří.

John Henry Newman (1801–1890) English cleric and cardinal
Paul Valéry foto

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
Básně nejsou nikdy dokončeny - pouze opuštěny.

Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher

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Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
Měli bychom považovat každý den jako ztracený, jestliže jsme v něm ani jednou netancovali.

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

“We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.”
Nemáme právo vyjádřit svůj názor, dokud neznáme všechny odpovědi.

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Rainer Maria Rilke foto

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
Zjistěte důvod, který přikazuje, abyste začali psát. Zjistěte, zda rozšířil své kořeny do hloubky vašeho srdce; a přiznejte si a přijměte, že byste museli zemřít, kdyby vám někdo zakázal psát.

Rainer Maria Rilke kniha Letters to a Young Poet

Letter One (17 February 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Kontext: No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Bob Marley foto

“When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.”
Když kouříte trávu, odhalíte se sami sobě.

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Joel Osteen foto

“Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.”
Víra aktivuje Boha - strach aktivuje nepřítele.

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Wayne W. Dyer foto

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
Nemůžeš být osamělý, když miluješ člověka, se kterým jsi sám.

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Bruce Lee foto

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Moudrý člověk se z hloupé otázky může dozvědět více než blázen, který se může poučit z moudré odpovědi.

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Walt Whitman foto

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Mějte vždy tvář obrácenou ke slunci - a stíny budou padat za vás.

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

This has become attributed to both Walt Whitman and Helen Keller, but has not been found in either of their published works, and variations of the quote are listed as a proverb commonly used in both the US and Canada in A Dictionary of American Proverbs (1992), edited by Wolfgang Mieder, Kelsie B. Harder and Stewart A. Kingsbury.
Misattributed

William Shakespeare foto

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
Radostí a smíchem ať přijdou staré vrásky.

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Zdroj: The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare foto

“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!”
Chtěl bych vás vyzvat k souboji v důvtipu, ale vidím, že jste neozbrojen!

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
James Baldwin foto

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
Domnívám se, že jedním z důvodů, proč lidé tak tvrdošíjně lpí na své nenávisti, je to, že cítí, že jakmile nenávist zmizí, budou se muset vyrovnat s bolestí.

James Baldwin kniha The Fire Next Time

"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Zdroj: The Fire Next Time

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
Nepíšete, protože chcete něco říct, píšete protože máte co říct.

F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha The Crack-Up

Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945)
Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)

Nora Roberts foto

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
Pokud si nepůjdete za tím, co chcete, nikdy toho nedosáhnete. Pokud se nezeptáte, odpověď je vždy ne. Pokud neuděláte krok vpřed, budete stále na stejném místě.

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Charles Manson foto

“Sanity is a small box; insanity is everything.”
Příčetnost je malá krabička, šílenství je všechno.

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
John C. Maxwell foto

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
Vůdce je ten, kdo zná cestu, jde po ní a ukazuje ji.

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
Mnoho lidí vkročí do vašeho života a odejdou, ale jen opravdoví přátelé zanechají stopy ve vašem srdci

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Cage foto

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”
Dostaňte se ven z jakékoliv klece, ve které se nacházíte.

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Viktor E. Frankl foto

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Všechno může být převzato od člověka, až na jednu věc: poslední z lidských svobod - zvolit si přístup člověka za všech daných okolností, zvolit si vlastní cestu.

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

Blaise Pascal foto

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
Napsal bych kratší dopis, ale neměl jsem čas.

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Often misattributed to Twain, this is actually by Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657:
Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Translation: I have only made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the opportunity to make it shorter.
Misattributed
Zdroj: The Provincial Letters

Rainer Maria Rilke foto

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Chci být s těmi, kdo znají tajné věci, jinak budu sám.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
Život je takový, jakým si ho uděláš. Vždy byl a vždy bude.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Von Neumann foto

“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
Pokud lidé nevěří, že matematika je jednoduchá, je to jen proto, že si neuvědomují, jak je život složitý.

John Von Neumann (1903–1957) Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath

Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.

Viktor E. Frankl foto

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
Jedinou věcí, kterou mi nemůžete vzít, je způsob, jakým jsem se rozhodl reagovat na to, co mi děláte. Poslední ze svobod člověka je zvolit si za každé okolnosti jeho postoj.

Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Mark Twain foto

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
Kdyby zvířata dokázala mluvit, pes by byl otevřeným chlapíkem; ale kočka by měla tu vzácnou milost, že by nikdy neřekla ani slovo.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Henry Rollins foto

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
Osamělost dodává životu krásu. Dává západům slunce zvláštní plamen a nočnímu vzduchu lepší vůni.

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Jonathan Franzen foto

“Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.”
Bez soukromí nemělo smysl být jednotlivcem.

Jonathan Franzen kniha The Corrections

Zdroj: The Corrections

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