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Winston S. Churchill foto

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
Nejlepší argument proti demokracii je pětiminutový rozhovor s průměrným voličem.

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. First known appearance is in a 1992 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rec.arts.comics.misc/EMj3ZowKq1U/E0dsEBwdZEgJ.
Misattributed
Zdroj: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=average+voter#v=snippet&q=average%20voter&f=false

Wayne W. Dyer foto

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”
Jsme dostatečně božští, abychom mohli žádat, a jsme dostatečně důležití, abychom mohli přijímat.

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Varianta: You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Confucius foto

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
Ticho je skutečný přítel, který nikdy nezradí.

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

“Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
Vděčnost může někomu zpříjemnit den - a dokonce mu změnit život. Stačí jen ochota vyjádřit ji slovy.

Margaret Cousins (1878–1954) Suffragist and feminist
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
Účelem života není být šťastný. Účelem života je být užitečný, čestný, soucitný, tak aby mělo význam, že jste žil a žil správně.

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

Attributed to Emerson in Life’s Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness (2000) by H. Jackson Brown Jr., as well as numerous on-line sources since, the article "The Purpose of Life Is Not To Be Happy But To Matter" at the Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/11/29/purpose/ indicates that this quote is probably derived from various statements first made by Leo Rosten, including the following words delivered at the National Book Awards held in New York in 1962: "The purpose of life is not to be happy — but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."
Misattributed

Marilyn Monroe foto

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
Jde o to všemu uvěřit, ne?

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

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”
Nezralá láska říká: „Miluji tě, protože tě potřebuji.“ Zralá láska říká: „Potřebuji tě, protože tě miluji.“

Erich Fromm kniha Umění milovat

Varianta: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Zdroj: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2

Jean Paul Sartre foto

“Hell is—other people!”
Peklo - jsou ostatní lidé!

Varianta: Hell is others.
Zdroj: No Exit

Will Rogers foto

“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
Dobrý úsudek vychází ze zkušeností a spousta zkušeností pochází ze špatného úsudku.

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Samuel Taylor Coleridge foto

“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Próza: slova v nejlepším pořadí; poezie: nejlepší slova v nejlepším pořadí.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Varianta: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Kontext: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.

Bohumil Hrabal foto

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
Strčím si krásnou větu do pusy a cucám ji jako ovocnou kapku.

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer
Charles Baudelaire foto

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.”
Dávejme si pozor na obyčejné lidi, zdravý rozum, sentiment, inspiraci a samozřejmost.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
Cíle jsou palivem v ohništi úspěchu.

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Robert Fulghum foto

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
Když si zlomíte vaz, když nemáte co jíst, když vám hoří dům, pak máte problém. Všechno ostatní jsou jen nepříjemnosti.

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Albert Einstein foto

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Svět, jak jsme ho vytvořili, je procesem našeho myšlení. Nemůže být změněn bez změny našeho myšlení.

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

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
Známkou vaší nevědomosti je hloubka vaší víry v nespravedlnost a tragédii. To, co housenka nazývá koncem světa, mistr nazývá motýlem.

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
A tak se slunečním svitem a velkými záblesky listů rostoucích na stromech, stejně jako věci rostou v rychlých filmech, jsem měl tak dobře známé přesvědčení, že život začíná znovu od léta.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

Maya Angelou foto

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Pokud se vám něco nelíbí, změňte to. Pokud to změnit nemůžete, změňte svůj postoj.

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Paulo Coelho foto

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
Když milujeme, vždy se snažíme být lepší než jsme. Když se snažíme být lepšími, než jsme, všechno kolem nás se také zlepší.

Paulo Coelho kniha Alchymista

Zdroj: The Alchemist

Confucius foto

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Pokud je zřejmé, že cílů nelze dosáhnout, neupravujte cíle, ale upravte kroky svého jednání.

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

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
Bůh nehraje v kostky s vesmírem.

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

Zdroj: The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

Marilyn Monroe foto

“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Kariéra je úžasná, ale o chladné noci se k ní nepřitulíte.

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

Varianta: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
Zdroj: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 53

Ansel Adams foto

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
Díky moudrosti, kterou jsem časem získal, jsem zjistil, že každá zkušenost je formou zkoumání.

Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
Plutarch foto

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”
Umíte-li naslouchat, budete mít prospěch i z těch, kteří mluví špatně.

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
Není nic posvátnějšího než integrita vaší mysli.

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

Zdroj: Self-Reliance

Robert A. Heinlein foto

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
Puritán je člověk, který si myslí, že jeho vlastní pravidla slušnosti jsou přirozené zákony.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Ambrose Bierce foto

“Quotation, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.”
Citace - nesprávné používání cizích slov. Nesprávně opakovaná slova.

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Zdroj: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

John F. Kennedy foto

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Ti, kteří učiní pokojnou revoluci nemožnou, učiní násilnou revoluci nevyhnutelnou.

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

Address to Latin American diplomats at the White House (13 March 1962) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100&st=&st1=
1962

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. foto

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking”
Náš charakter je to, co děláme, když si myslíme, že se nikdo nedívá.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Franz Kafka foto

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
Myslím, že bychom měli číst jen takové knihy, které nás rania a bodají.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
George Bernard Shaw foto

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
Pesimista je muž, který si myslí, že každý je tak ošklivý jako on, a za to je nenávidí.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Desmond Tutu foto

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”
Rodinu si nevybíráte. Jsou pro vás Božím darem, stejně jako vy pro ně.

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

Charles Bukowski foto
Winston S. Churchill foto

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
Úspěch sestává z cesty od nezdaru k nezdaru bez ztráty nadšení.

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

Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. The earliest close match located by the Quote Investigator is from the 1953 book How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers.
Misattributed
Varianta: Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Zdroj: 1953, How to Say a Few Words by David Guy Powers, Quote p. 109, Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York. Referenced by Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/28/success

Orson Welles foto

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
Absence omezení je nepřítelem umění.

Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Albert Einstein foto

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
Jakmile budete moci přijmout vesmír, coby hmotu šířící se od ničeho, co je něco, nošení pruhovaného ohozu se stane snadným.

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

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
Přátelství je zdrojem největších radostí a bez přátel se i ty nejpříjemnější činnosti stávají nudnými.

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
John Dewey foto

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
Každý velký pokrok ve vědě byl výsledkem nové odvahy představivosti.

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
Misc. Quotes
Zdroj: The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

Muhammad Ali foto

“I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.”
Vím, kam jdu, a znám pravdu a nemusím být tím, čím chcete, abych byl. Jsem svobodný a mohu být tím, čím chci.

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

Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Kontext: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.”
Existuje okamžik - ten jeden, přesně před prvním polibkem, jedno zašeptané slovo - díky kterému to celé stojí za to.

F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

Ralph Waldo Emerson foto

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
To, jací jste, o sobě dává vědět tak hlasitě, že neslyším, co říkáte.

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

Varianta: Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.

Thich Nhat Hanh foto

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”
Pokud nejsme plně sami sebou, skutečně v přítomném okamžiku, všechno nám uniká.

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Zdroj: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Paulo Coelho foto

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes.”
Když najdete svou cestu, nesmíte se bát. Musíte mít dostatečnou odvahu dělat chyby.

Paulo Coelho kniha Brida

Zdroj: Brida (1990).
Kontext: When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

Anaïs Nin foto

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Hluboce prožívaný osobní život se vždy rozšiřuje do pravd, které ho přesahují.

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Anaïs Nin foto

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”
Sen mě vždycky předběhl. Zázrakem bylo dohnat ho, žít chvíli ve shodě.

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Gustave Flaubert citát: “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
Gustave Flaubert foto

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
Neexistuje část života, která by v sobě nenesla poezii.

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Charles Bukowski foto

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
Velké umění je pitomost, raději si kupte tacos.

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
George Bernard Shaw foto

“The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
Trest lháře není to, že mu nakonec nikdo nevěří, ale to, že nemůže věřit nikomu jinému.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Zdroj: The Quintessence of Ibsenism

Jane Austen foto

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
Hloupé věci přestanou být hloupé, pokud je vykonávají rozumní lidé bezohledně.

Jane Austen kniha Emma

Zdroj: Emma

Agatha Christie foto

“An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”
Archeolog je nejlepším manželem, jakého žena může mít; čím je starší, tím víc se o ni zajímá.

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

Christie denied having made this remark, which had been attributed to her by her second husband Sir Max Mallowan in a news report (9 March 1954); according to Nigel Dennis, "Genteel Queen of Crime: Agatha Christie Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder", Life, Volume 40, N° 20, 14 May 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=p0wEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA102, she was quoting "a witty wife"; Quote Investigator reports on "An Archaeologist Is the Best Husband a Woman Can Have" as of uncertain origin. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/12/husband/
Disputed
Varianta: An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Arthur Conan Doyle foto

“Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.”
Watsone. Jestli můžete, okamžitě přijeďte. Pokud ne, přijeďte i tak.

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

Zdroj: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Creeping Man

Franz Kafka foto

“Paths are made by walking”
Cesty vznikají chůzí.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Marilyn Monroe foto

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”
Snít o tom, že budu herečkou, je mnohem vzrušující než jí být.

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

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Všechny šťastné rodiny jsou si navzájem podobné, každá neťastná rodina je nešťastná svým způsobem.

Leo Tolstoy kniha Anna Karenina

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Varianta: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Zdroj: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

Marcus Aurelius foto

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”
Když se podíváte do minulosti, kde vznikaly a zanikaly říše, můžete předvídat budoucnost.

Marcus Aurelius kniha Hovory k sobě

Zdroj: Meditations

George Bernard Shaw foto

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
Moudrými nás nečiní vzpomínky na minulost, ale odpovědnost za budoucnost.

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
Chci vědět, že ses pohyboval a dýchal ve stejném světě jako já.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Zdroj: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”
V životě máme dvě základní možnosti: přijmout podmínky takové, jaké jsou, nebo přijmout odpovědnost za jejich změnu.

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
Jane Austen foto

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
Poznejte své vlastní štěstí. Nechceš nic než trpělivost - nebo jí nazývej přitažlivějším jménem, říkej ji naděje.

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

Zdroj: Sense and Sensibility

Winston S. Churchill foto

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Jsme mistři nevyslovených slov, ale otroky těch, které jsme nechali vyklouznout.

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

Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Jane Austen foto

“She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.”
Byla rozumná a chytrá, ale ve všem dychtivá; její smutky, její radosti, nemohly být zmírněny.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Zdroj: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

John Steinbeck foto

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

John Steinbeck kniha Na východ od ráje

Zdroj: East of Eden (1952)
Kontext: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Kontext: In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Milan Kundera foto

“There is no perfection only life”
Neexistuje žádná dokonalost, jen život.

Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Winston S. Churchill foto

“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
Předtím, než začneš inspirovat emocemi, musíš jimi být sám zahlcen. Než ostatní dojmeš, musí tvé slzy téct. Abys je přesvědčil, musíš sám věřit.

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Robert A. Heinlein foto

“Never try to outstubborn a cat.”
Nikdy se nesnaž přechytračit kočku.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

Sören Kierkegaard foto

“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Je naprostou pravdou, jak říkají filozofové, že život třeba chápat zpětně. Zapomínají však na další tvrzení, že se musí žít směrem dopředu.

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Journals IV A 164 (1843)
See Phenomenology: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, by Dermot Moran (2002)
Variants:
We live forward, but we understand backward.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s

Martin Luther King, Jr. foto

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Národ, který rok co rok vydává více peněz na vojenskou obranu než na programy sociálního rozvoje, se blíží duchovní smrti.

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

1960s, Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam (1967)
Kontext: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be changed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Albert Einstein foto

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Bylo by možné vše popsat vědecky, ale nedávalo by to smysl; bylo by to bez významu, jako kdybyste popsali Beethovenovu symfonii jako variace tlaku ve vlnách.

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

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Moje chyba, moje selhání není ve vášních, které mám, ale v mém nedostatku kontroly nad nimi.

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed

F. Scott Fitzgerald foto

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
Nechci opakovat svou nevinu. Chci mít potěšení z toho, že ji znovu ztratím.

F. Scott Fitzgerald kniha This Side of Paradise

Zdroj: This Side of Paradise

Henry David Thoreau foto

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”
Nejvíce, co mohu pro svého přítele udělat, je prostě být jeho přítelem.

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

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

HOBBES: Všechny ty moderní technologie způsobují, že se lidé snaží dělat všechno najednou.

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Alexander Pope foto

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Chybovati jest lidské, odpouštěti božské.

Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism

Zdroj: An Essay on Criticism (1711)

Lou Holtz foto

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Schopnost je to, čeho jste schopni. Motivace určuje, co děláte. Postoj určuje, jak dobře to děláte.

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

Varianta: Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

T.S. Eliot foto

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
Pokud toho nemáš až nad hlavu, jak vlastně víš, jak vysoký jsi?

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Confucius foto

“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”
Když se podíváš do svého srdce a nenajdeš tam nic špatného, čeho se pak obávat? Čeho se bát?

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

“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.”
Pokud existuje náboženství, které by mohlo reagovat na potřeby moderní vědy, je to buddhismus.

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

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Pokud narazíme na člověka se vzácným intelektem, měli bychom se ho zeptat, jaké knihy čte.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
P.G. Wodehouse foto

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
Není jistějšího základu pro krásné přátelství než shodný vkus v literatuře.

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Woody Allen foto

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Ve svém životě lituji jedině toho, že nejsem někdo jiný.

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

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”
Pokud člověk začne jistotami, skončí v pochybnostech; pokud se však spokojí s tím, že začne pochybnostmi, skončí v jistotách.

Francis Bacon kniha The Advancement of Learning

Book I, v, 8
The Advancement of Learning (1605)
Zdroj: The Advancement Of Learning
Kontext: The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Marilyn Monroe foto

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
Chci zestárnout bez plastických operací. Chci mít odvahu být věrnou k tváři, kterou jsem vytvořila.

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

“My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”
Moje náboženství spočívá v pokorném obdivu k nesmírné síle, která se projevuje v té malé části vesmíru, kterou naše ubohá a slabá mysl dokáže pochopit!

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

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)
Kontext: I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

Franz Kafka foto

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
Psaní je naprostá samota, sestup do chladné propasti sebe sama.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Marilyn Monroe foto

“I read poetry to save time.”
Četla jsem poezii, abych ušetřila čas.

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

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”
Když srdce mluví, mysl shledává, že je neslušné protestovat. V oblasti kýče vládne diktatura srdce.

Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

Charles Baudelaire foto

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
Genialita není nic víc ani méně než dětství znovu nabyté dle libosti.

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863), III: “L’artiste, homme du monde, homme des foules et enfant”
Varianta: Genius is nothing but youth recaptured.
Zdroj: The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Paulo Coelho foto

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”
Nejsilnější láskou je láska, která dokáže prokázat svou křehkost.

Paulo Coelho kniha Jedenáct minut

Zdroj: Eleven Minutes

Richard Bach foto

“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
Pokud chcete něco vnést do svého života, představte si, že už to tam je.

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Zdroj: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

John F. Kennedy foto

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”
Ti, kteří se odváží neúspěchu, mohou dosáhnout velkých věcí.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Edward de Bono foto

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
Je lepší mít spoustu nápadů, i když jsou některé z nich špatné, než mít stále pravdu, ale nemít žádné nápady.

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician
Agatha Christie foto

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”
Dobrá rada bude jistě vždy ignorována, ale to není důvod, proč ji neposkytnout.

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
Francis Bacon foto

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
Rozumná otázka je polovinou moudrosti.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Colin Powell foto

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”
Vyvarujte se toho, aby vaše ego bylo tak blízko vaší pozici, že když vaše pozice padne, vaše ego půjde s ní.

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Varianta: You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Marilyn Monroe foto

“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
Chlapci si myslí, že dívky jsou jako knihy, pokud jejich obálka nezaujme jejich oči, nezjišťují co je uvnitř.

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

Varianta: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

T.S. Eliot foto

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
Pravá poezie dokáže komunikovat dříve, než je pochopena.

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Percy Bysshe Shelley foto

“Fear not the future, weep not for the past.”
Nebojte se budoucnosti, neplačte nad minulostí.

Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam

Canto XI, st. 18
The Revolt of Islam (1817)

Albert Einstein foto

“A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.”
Skutečný génius připouští, že nic neví.

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

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
A malým vytrvalým faktem, který se prodírá historií je, že potlačování posiluje a spojuje pouze ty, kteří jsou potlačování.

John Steinbeck kniha Hrozny hněvu

Zdroj: The Grapes of Wrath

Wayne W. Dyer foto

“You'll see it when you believe it.”
Uvidíte to, až tomu uvěříte.

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

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