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Gabriel García Márquez citát: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Gabriel García Márquez foto

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Není pravda, že lidé přestávají následovat sny, protože stárnou, stárnou, protože přestávají následovat své sny.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Oscar Wilde citát: “Every woman is a rebel.”
Oscar Wilde foto

“Every woman is a rebel.”
Každá žena je rebel.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Paulo Coelho foto

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
Láska je neskrotná síla. Když se ji pokusíme ovládat, zničí nás. Když se ji pokusíme uvěznit, zotročuje nás. Když se ji snažíme pochopit, cítíme se ztraceni a zmateni.

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Gore Vidal foto

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Styl je vyjádření toho, kým jste a co chcete říct, a ne toho, že je vám všechno jedno.

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
Milan Kundera foto

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
Ráda chodila po ulici s knihou pod paží. Měla pro ni stejný význam jako elegantní hůl pro gentlemana před sto lety. To ji odlišovalo od ostatních.

Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Leonardo Da Vinci foto

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Učení vaši mysl nikdy nevyčerpá.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
Christopher Morley foto

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
To je to, co tato země potřebuje - více knih!

Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
Samuel Goldwyn foto

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Čím usilovněji pracuji, tím větší mám štěstí.

Samuel Goldwyn (1879–1974) American film producer (1879-1974).

Misattributed

Phil Jackson foto

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
Vždy mějte otevřenou mysl a soucitné srdce.

Phil Jackson (1945) basketball player and coach from the United States
Ovid foto

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
Nechte ostatní chválit starověk; já jsem rád, že jsem se narodil v této době.

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet
Octavia E. Butler foto

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Aby Fénix povstal z vlastního popela, musí nejprve shořet.

Octavia E. Butler kniha Parable of the Talents

Varianta: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Zdroj: Parable of the Talents

Emile Zola foto

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
Hřích by měl být něco znamenitého, můj drahý chlapče.

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Victor Hugo foto

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Hudba vyjadřuje to, co nelze říci a nebo o čem je nemožné mlčet.

Victor Hugo kniha William Shakespeare

Ce qu’on ne peut dire et ce qu’on ne peut taire, la musique l’exprime.
Part I, Book II, Chapter IV
William Shakespeare (1864)
Varianta: Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
Zdroj: Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Oscar Wilde foto

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Slibovali nám, že sny se mohou splnit - ale zapomněli zmínit, že noční můry jsou také sny.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Terry Pratchett foto

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Pět vykřičníků, což je jisté znamení šílené mysli.

Terry Pratchett kniha Sekáč

Varianta: Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
Zdroj: Reaper Man

William Shakespeare foto

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
Dejte smutku slova; smutek, který nemluví, svírá zkroucené srdce a nutí ho puknout.

Varianta: The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
Zdroj: Macbeth

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
Když jsme unavení, jsme napadeni nápady, které jsme dávno dobyli.

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

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Vždy dělejte, co je správné. Potěší to polovinu lidstva a ohromí tu druhou.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

To the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (February 16, 1901).
Varianta: Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

Bertrand Russell foto

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Ze všech forem opatrnosti, je opatrnost v lásce nejvíce osudná opravdovému štěstí.

Bertrand Russell kniha The Conquest of Happiness

Zdroj: 1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Jim Valvano foto

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Můj otec mi dal ten největší dar, jaký může někdo dát druhému člověku - věřil ve mě.

Jim Valvano (1946–1993) American basketball player-coach
Abraham Lincoln foto

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Lidé jsou obvykle asi tak šťastní, jak si usmyslí.

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

Often misquoted as: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." or "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
This quote is not found in the various Lincoln sources which can be searched online (e.g. Gutenberg). Niether does Lincoln appear more generally to use the phrase "making up {one's} mind". The saying was first quoted, ascribed to Lincoln but with no source given, in 1914 by Frank Crane and several times subsequently by him in altered versions. It was later quoted in How to Get What You Want (1917) by Orison Swett Marden (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917), 74, again without source. Alternative versions quoted are: "I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be" and "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."


Zdroj: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/20/happy-minds/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPeople%20are%20about%20as%20happy,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D&text=Remember%20Lincoln's%20saying%20that%20%E2%80%9Cfolks,up%20their%20minds%20to%20be.%E2%80%9D

Curiously in later books Crane, e.g. Four Minute Essays, 1919, Adventures in Common Sense, 1920, "21", 1930, Crane mentions other routes to happiness and does not again use this quote.

Marden used a great many quotes in his writings, without giving sources. Whilst sources for many of the quotes can be found, this is not true for all. For instance he mentions another story in which Lincoln says "Madam, you have not a peg to hang your case on"; this also does not seem to found in Lincoln sources.

Elias Canetti foto

“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”
Na cestách člověk všechno přijímá, rozhořčení zůstává doma. Člověk se dívá, naslouchá, i ty nejstrašnější věci v něm vzbuzují nadšení, protože jsou nové. Dobří cestovatelé jsou bezcitní.

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Zdroj: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Stephen King foto

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
Upřímně, můžete si vzít mou zbraň, ale mou knihu budete mít, až když urvete mé studené, mrtvé prsty z její vazby.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Když je dostečná tma, můžete vidět hvězdy.

Widely attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson on the internet; however, a presumably definitive source of Emerson's works at http://www.rwe.org fails to confirm any occurrence of this phrase across his works. This phrase is found in remarks attributed to Charles A. Beard in Arthur H. Secord, "Condensed History Lesson", Readers' Digest, February 1941, p. 20; but the origin has not been determined. Possibly confused with a passage in "Illusions" in which Emerson discusses his experience in the "Star Chamber": "our lamps were taken from us by the guide, and extinguished or put aside, and, on looking upwards, I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads, and even what seemed a comet flaming among them. All the party were touched with astonishment and pleasure. Our musical friends sung with much feeling a pretty song, “The stars are in the quiet sky,” &c., and I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture. Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead, reflecting the light of a half–hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect."
Misattributed

Abraham Lincoln foto

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Nezničím snad své nepřátele, když si z nich udělám přátele?

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

His response when "accused of treating his opponents with too much courtesy and kindness, and when it was pointed out to him that his whole duty was to destroy them", as quoted in More New Testament Words (1958) by William Barclay; either this anecdote or Lincoln's reply may have been adapted from a reply attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund:
:* Some courtiers reproached the Emperor Sigismond that, instead of destroying his conquered foes, he admitted them to favour. “Do I not,” replied the illustrious monarch, “effectually destroy my enemies, when I make them my friends?”
::* "Daily Facts" in The Family Magazine Vol. IV (1837), p. 123 http://books.google.de/books?id=aW0EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123&dq=destroy; also quoted as simply in "Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?" in The Sociable Story-teller (1846)
Disputed

Jane Austen foto

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Přál bych si, stejně jako všichni ostatní, být naprosto šťastný; ale jako všichni ostatní, musím být šťastný mým vlastním způsobem.

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

Zdroj: Sense and Sensibility

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Musíte mít v sobě chaos, abyste mohli zrodit tančící hvězdu.

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

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Jelikož jsi mi nešeptal do ucha, ale do srdce. Nepolíbil jsi mé rty, ale mou duši.

Judy Garland (1922–1969) actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States
Abraham Lincoln foto

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Mým nejlepším přítelem je člověk, který mi dá knihu, kterou jsem nečetl.

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

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Ztratit jednoho rodiče lze považovat za neštěstí, ale ztratit oba - to už je nedbalost.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

Henry David Thoreau foto

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Pokud budeme dost klidní a připraveni, v každém zklamání najdeme kompenzaci.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Zdroj: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Stephen King foto

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Každé slovo, které musíte hledat ve slovníku, je špatné. Z tohoto pravidla neexistují žádné výjimky.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bruce Lee foto

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Nebojte se neúspěchu. Nikoliv neúspěch, ale snadno dosažitelný cíl, je zločinem. Odvážný pokus je skvělý i když je neúspěšný.

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

Zdroj: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Zdroj: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Colette foto

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Šel jsem sbírat pár osobních věcí, které… jsem považoval za neocenitelné: moji kočku, moje odhodlání cestovat a moji samotu.

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Confucius foto

“Man has three ways of acting wisely. First, on meditation; that is the noblest. Secondly, on imitation; that is the easiest. Thirdly, on experience; that is the bitterest.”
Člověk má tři způsoby, jak jednat moudře. Za prvé, meditací; to je nejušlechtilejší. Za druhé, napodobováním; to je nejsnazší. Zatřetí, na základě zkušeností; to je nejhořčejší.

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

The Analects, as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 279.
Attributed

Oscar Wilde foto

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Znal jsem jen pouhé stíny a domníval se, že jsou skutečné.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

William Shakespeare foto

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Jak daleko tato malá svíčka vrhá paprsky! Přesně tak svítí i dobrý skutek v tomto unaveném světě.

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Zdroj: The Merchant of Venice

Sigmund Freud foto

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Jednou si vzpomeneš na ty útrapy v průběhu let, ale budeš na ně vzpomínat v dobrém.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
James Joyce foto

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
Bůh stvořil jídlo, ďábel kuchaře.

James Joyce Ulysses

Zdroj: Ulysses

Karl Marx foto

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Filosofové doposud svět vysvětlovali, jde však o to - změnit ho.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.
http://books.google.com/books?id=xyc9AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Die+Philosophen+haben+die+Welt+nur+verschieden%22+%22es+kommt+aber+darauf+an+sie+zu+ver%C3%A4ndern%22&pg=PA72#v=onepage
"Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15; these words are also engraved upon his grave.
First published as an appendix to the pamphlet Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Friedrich Engels (1886)
Zdroj: Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Jsou pouze pronásledovaní a pronásledující, uhonění a příliš unavení.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

Oscar Wilde foto

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
Nikdy neodkládám na zítřek, co lze udělat pozítří.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Lucille Ball foto

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
Raději budu litovat toho, co jsem udělal, než toho, co jsem neudělal.

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Varianta: I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
Varianta: Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.

Gabriel García Márquez foto

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
Každý člověk vede tři životy: veřejný, soukromý a tajný.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Zdroj: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

Mark Twain foto

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Součástí tajemství úspěchu v životě je jíst to, co vám chutná, a nechat jídlo, ať si to v sobě vybojuje.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”
Všichni lidé mají strach, ale odvážní svůj strach odloží a jdou vpřed, někdy na smrt, ale vždy k vítězství.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Zdroj: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Teresa of Ávila foto

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
Nenechte se vyvést z míry, nenechte se zastrašit. Všechno pomine. Bůh se nemění. Trpělivostí dosáhnete všeho.

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint
Oscar Wilde foto

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Neexistuje žádný hřích kromě hlouposti.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Zdroj: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

William Faulkner foto

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
Nebuďte "spisovatelem". Jen pište.

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
Vincent Van Gogh foto

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Rybáři vědí, že moře je nebezpečné a bouře hrozná, ale tato nebezpečí nikdy nebyla dostatečným důvodem k tomu, aby zůstali na břehu.

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

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Velké věci se dělají řadou malých věcí, které se spojily.

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

In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 22 October 1882, http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/11/237.htm
1880s, 1882

Martin Luther King, Jr. foto

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Musíme společně žít jako bratři nebo společně zahynout jako hlupáci.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, A Christmas Sermon (1967)
Varianta: We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

John Locke foto

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Vždycky jsem si myslel, že činy lidí nejlépe vypovídají o jejich myšlenkách.

John Locke kniha An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Book 1, Ch. 3, sec. 3
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Varianta: The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Oscar Wilde foto

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Hudba dělá člověka tak romantickým - nebo přinejmenším někomu vždy leze na nervy - což je dnes to samé.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Albert Einstein foto

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
Logika tě dostane z bodu A do bodu B. Představivost tě dostane všude.

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

Varianta: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.

Stephen King foto

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
Trocha talentu je dobrá věc, pokud chcete být spisovatelem. Jediným skutečným požadavkem je však schopnost pamatovat si každou jizvu.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bertrand Russell foto

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Existují dva motivy pro čtení knihy: jeden, protože se vám líbí; druhý, že se tím můžete chlubit.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Oscar Wilde foto

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
Nevěřte ženě, která prozradí svůj skutečný věk. Taková žena prozradí cokoliv.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Jane Austen foto

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
Jsem nejšťastnější bytost na světě. Možná to už řekli jiní lidé, ale ne tak oprávněně. Jsem dokonce šťastnější než Jane; ona se jen usmívá, já se směju.

Jane Austen kniha Pýcha a předsudek

Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice

Charles Baudelaire foto

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
Život má jen jedno opravdové kouzlo: kouzlo hry. Ale co když je nám lhostejné, zda vyhrajeme, nebo prohrajeme?

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet
Oscar Wilde foto

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
Cílem života je seberozvoj. Abychom si dokonale uvědomili svou přirozenost - to je to, pro co je tu každý z nás .

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Abraham Lincoln foto

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Kdybych měl 8 hodin na pokácení stromu, 6 bych strávil broušení sekyry.

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

Varianta: If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

Charles Bukowski foto

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Zlato, jsem génius, ale nikdo kromě mě to neví.

Charles Bukowski kniha Factotum

Zdroj: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

Bob Dylan foto

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”
Vše, čím mohu být, jsem já - ať už je to kdokoli.

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Jack London foto

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
Kost pro psa není charita. Charita je kost sdílená se psem, když jste stejně hladový jako pes.

Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist

"Confession" in Complete Works of Jack London, Delphi Classics, 2013
Varianta: Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Winston S. Churchill foto

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Nic v životě není tak vzrušující, jako když na vás někdo bezvýsledně střílí.

Winston S. Churchill kniha The Story of the Malakand Field Force

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Varianta: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Každý myslitel se více bojí porozumění než špatného pochopení.

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

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
Neslyšte zlo, nemluvte zlo a na koktejlová večírky pozváni nebudete.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Stephen King foto

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Vymýšlíme horory, abychom se vyrovnali s těmi skutečnými.

Stephen King (1947) American author
William Shakespeare foto

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
Bůh vám dal jednu tvář, a vy si vytváříte jinou.

Zdroj: Hamlet

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. foto

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
Mysli na velké věci, ale vychutnávej si malé radosti.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Zdroj: Life's Little Instruction Book

Terry Pratchett foto

“Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.”
Mnoho lidí si při prvním setkání s Aziraphalem vytvořilo tři dojmy: že je Angličan, že je inteligentní a že je teplejší než strom plný opic na rajském plynu.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Zdroj: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Emile Zola foto

“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation.”
Na kráse nebo dokonalosti mi příliš nezáleží. Nezajímají mě velká staletí. Zajímá mě jen život, boj, intenzita. Ve své generaci se cítím dobře.

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

"My Hates" (1866).

Bruce Lee foto

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Vyvažujte své myšlenky s akcí. - Pokud trávíte příliš mnoho času přemýšlením o věci, nikdy to neuděláte.

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

Zdroj: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43

Elbert Hubbard foto

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Nikdy nic nevysvětlujte! Přátelé to nepotřebují a nepřátelé vám i tak neuvěří.

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Motto Book (1907).
Varianta: Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

Haruki Murakami foto

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
Bez ohledu na to, jakým utrpením jste si prošli, nikdy jste se nechtěli těchto vzpomínek zbavit.

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Ernest Hemingway foto

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
Všichni jsme rozbití - tak se do nás dostává světlo.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

This quotation was not crafted by Ernest Hemingway. Its exact genesis is uncertain, but QI hypothesizes that the 1929 statement by Hemingway and the 1992 lyric by Leonard Cohen both strongly influenced the evolution of the expression and its ascription. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/11/16/light/

Susan B. Anthony foto

“Independence is happiness.”
Nezávislost je štěstí.

Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Ian Fleming foto

“You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.”

Žiješ jen dvakrát: Jednou, když se narodíš a jednou, když se podíváš smrti do tváře.

Ian Fleming kniha You Only Live Twice

Zdroj: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 11 : Anatomy Class

Gabriel García Márquez foto

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Sex je útěcha, kterou máte, když nemůžete mít lásku.

Gabriel García Márquez kniha Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Varianta: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Zdroj: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Eleanor Roosevelt foto

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
Vždy mějte na paměti, že máte právo být osobností, ale také máte povinnost jí být.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
C.G. Jung foto

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
Osamělost nevzniká tím, že člověk kolem sebe nemá žádné lidi, ale z neschopnosti sdělit věci, které se mu zdají důležité, nebo ze zastávání určitých názorů, které ostatní považují za nepřípustné.

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

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Cokoliv, co mysl člověka dokáže vymyslet a věřit tomu, to dokáže i dosáhnout.

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

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Varianta: Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Zdroj: Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

Albert Einstein foto

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
Málokdo je schopen rovnocenně vyjadřovat názory, které se liší od předsudků jejich společenského prostředí. Většina lidí není schopna vytvářet si takové názory.

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

The New Quotable Einstein
1950s, Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Aristotle foto

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Beru ho za odvážnějšího, když překonává své touhy, než když si podmaňuje své nepřátele, protože nejtěžší vítězství je nad sebou.

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

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
Opět je tu jaro. Země je jako dítě, které zná básničky nazpaměť.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Peter F. Drucker foto

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Velká část toho, čemu říkáme management, spočívá v tom, že lidem ztěžujeme práci.

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Friedrich Nietzsche foto

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Ach, ženy. Díky nim stoupáme výše, ale padáme častěji.

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

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
My, kteří si myslíme, že brzy zemřeme, se smějeme čemukoli.

Terry Pratchett kniha Noční hlídka

Zdroj: Night Watch

Niccolo Machiavelli foto

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
Lev se nemůže chránit před pastmi a liška se nemůže bránit před vlky. Člověk musí být proto liškou, která rozpozná pasti, a lvem, který vystraší vlky.

Niccolo Machiavelli kniha Vladař

Zdroj: The Prince (1513), Ch. 18
Variant translations of portions of this passage:
Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and to live with integrity and not with craft. Nevertheless our experience has been that those princes who have done great things have held good faith of little account, and have known how to circumvent the intellect of men by craft, and in the end have overcome those who have relied on their word.
Ch. 18. Concerning the Way in which Princes should keep Faith (as translated by W. K. Marriott)
A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
You must know there are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, it is necessary to have recourse to the second.
Kontext: A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this.
Kontext: How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to princes by ancient writers, who relate how Achilles and many others of those princes were given to Chiron the centaur to be brought up, who kept them under his discipline; this system of having for teacher one who was half beast and half man is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable. A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise snares, and a lion to frighten wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them.... those that have been best able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler.

Paulo Coelho foto

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”
Osvobodit se od vzpomínek vyžaduje obrovské úsilí.

Paulo Coelho kniha Aleph

Zdroj: Aleph

John F. Kennedy foto

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
Musíme si najít čas na to, abychom se zastavili a poděkovali lidem, kteří dělají změny v našich životech.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Charles Bukowski foto

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
Nemyslím tím, že jsi hezký, alespoň ne tak, jak si lidé myslí, že by měl hezký člověk vypadat. Tvůj obličej vypadá hezky. Ale tvoje oči jsou nádherné. Jsou divoké, bláznivé, jako nějaké zvíře, které vykukuje z hořícího lesa.

Charles Bukowski kniha Ženy

Zdroj: Women

Jean Paul Sartre foto

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Nevěřila v nic, jen její skepse jí bránila být ateistkou.

Jean Paul Sartre kniha The Words

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

C.G. Jung foto

“Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
Bez této hry s fantazií se ještě žádné tvůrčí dílo nezrodilo. Dluh, který máme vůči hře fantazie, je nevyčíslitelný.

C.G. Jung kniha Psychological Types

Zdroj: Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921), Ch. 1, p. 82
Kontext: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth.

Abraham Lincoln foto

“Perhaps a man's character was like a tree, and his reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Možná je charakter člověka jako strom a jeho reputace jako stín toho stromu; stín je to, co si o něm myslíme; strom je skutečnost.

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

As quoted in "Lincoln's Imagination" by Noah Brooks, in Scribner's Monthly (August 1879), p. 586 http://books.google.com/books?id=jOoGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA586
Posthumous attributions
Varianta: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Henry David Thoreau foto

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Jak marné je sedět a psát, když jste se nepostavili k životu.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Varianta: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Oscar Wilde foto

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Některé věci jsou cennější, protože netrvají dlouho.

Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Fulghum foto

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Cokoli, co nestojí za to, abyste dělali, nemá cenu dělat dobře.

Robert Fulghum kniha Všechno, co opravdu potřebuju znát, jsem se naučil v mateřské školce

Zdroj: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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