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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 fotka

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
Nie je pravda, že ľudia prestanú ísť za svojimi snami, pretože starnú. Starnú, pretože prestanú ísť za svojimi snami.

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

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

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

“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 sila. Ak sa ju snažíme ovládať, zničí nás. Ak sa ju snažíme uväzniť, zotročí nás. Ak sa jej snažíme porozumieť, sme stratení a zmätení.

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

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
Štýl znamená vedieť kým si, čo chceš povedať a netrápiť sa tým, čo si o tebe myslia iní.

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

“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.”
Rada sa prechádzala po ulici s knihou pod pažou. Mala pre ňu rovnaký význam ako elegantná palica pre džentlmena pred sto rokmi. Odlišovala ju od ostatných.

Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Leonardo Da Vinci fotka

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Učenie nikdy nevyčerpáva myseľ.

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

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
To je to, čo táto krajina potrebuje - viac kníh!

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

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Čím viac pracujem, tým viac sa mi darí.

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

Misattributed

Phil Jackson fotka

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
Vždy si zachovajte otvorenú myseľ a súcitné srdce.

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

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
Nech iní chvália staroveké časy; Ja som rád, že som sa narodil v týchto.

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

“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Fénix musí najprv zhorieť, aby mohol povstať z vlastného popola.

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 fotka

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
Hriech by mal byť niečo znamenité, môj drahý chlapče.

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

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
Hudba vyjadruje to, čo nemožno povedať o niečom, o čom nie je možné mlčať.

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 fotka

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
Sľúbili, že sny sa môžu stať skutočnosťou - ale zabudli spomenúť, že aj nočné mory sú sny.

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

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
Päť výkričníkov - istý znak šialenej mysle.

Terry Pratchett kniha Reaper Man

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

William Shakespeare fotka

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
Dajte smútku slová; smútok, ktorý nehovorí, zovrie zovreté srdce a núti ho puknúť.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche fotka

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
Keď sme unavení, napadnú nás nápady, ktoré sme si podmanili už dávno.

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

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
Vždy robte, čo je správne. Uspokojí to polovicu ľudstva a ohromí tú druhého.

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 fotka

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Zo všetkých foriem opatrnosti je opatrnosť v láske pravdepodobne tým najsmrteľnejším pre skutočné šťastie.

Bertrand Russell kniha The Conquest of Happiness

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

Jim Valvano fotka

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Môj otec mi dal najväčší dar, aký môže niekto dať druhému človeku - veril vo mňa.

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

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
Ľudia dokážu byť tak šťastní, ako si len ich myseľ zaumieni.

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 fotka

“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 človek všetko prijíma, rozhorčenie zostáva doma. Človek sa pozerá, počúva, nadchýnajú ho tie najstrašnejšie veci, pretože sú nové. Dobrí cestovatelia sú 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 fotka

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
Medzi nami - môžete si vziať moju pištoľ, ale moju knihu si vezmete, len ak z viazania odtrhnete moje vychladnuté mŕtve prsty.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Ralph Waldo Emerson fotka

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Keď je dostatočne tma, môžete vidieť hviezdy.

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 fotka

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
Či nezničím svojich nepriateľov, keď si z nich urobím priateľov?

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 fotka

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
Prajem si, rovnako ako všetci ostatní, aby som bola plne šťastná; ale rovnako ako všetci ostatní, to musí byť mojím spôsobom.

Jane Austen kniha Sense and Sensibility

Zdroj: Sense and Sensibility

Friedrich Nietzsche fotka

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
Musíte mať v sebe chaos, aby ste mohli vytvoriť tancujúcu hviezdu.

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

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
Pretože si mi nešepkal do ucha, ale do srdca. Nepobozkal si moje pery, ale moju dušu.

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

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
Môj najlepší priateľ je osoba, ktorá mi daruje knihu, ktorú som si ešte neprečítal.

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

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”
Stratiť jedného rodiča možno považovať za nešťastie, ale stratiť oboch - to už je nedbanlivosť.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

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

Henry David Thoreau fotka

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Ak budeme dosť tichí a pripravení, v každom sklamaní nájdeme náhradu.

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 fotka

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
Každé slovo, ktoré musíte hľadať v slovníku, je nesprávne. Z tohto pravidla neexistujú žiadne výnimky.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bruce Lee fotka

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
Neboj sa zlyhania. Nie zlyhanie, ale nízky cieľ, je trestný čin. Pri veľkých pokusoch je slávne aj zlyhanie.

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 fotka

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
Zobral som si so sebou pár osobných vecí, ktoré som považoval za neoceniteľné: moju mačku, moje odhodlanie cestovať a moju samotu.

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

“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.”
Človek má tri cesty ako múdro konať. Najskôr premýšľaním: To je tá nejušlachtilejšia. Druhá napodobovaním: To je tá najľahšia. Tretia skúsenosťou: To je tá najtvrdšia.

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 fotka

“I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
Nepoznal som nič okrem tieňov a považoval som ich za skutočné.

Oscar Wilde kniha The Picture of Dorian Gray

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

William Shakespeare fotka

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
Ako ďaleko táto malá sviečka vrhá svoje svetlo! Presne tak svieti dobrý skutok v tomto unavenom svete.

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Zdroj: The Merchant of Venice

Sigmund Freud fotka

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Jedného dňa, keď si budete spomínať, roky trápenia budete považovať za tie najkrajšie.

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

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”
Boh stvoril jedlo, diabol korenie.

James Joyce Ulysses

Zdroj: Ulysses

Karl Marx fotka

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Filozofi len interpretovali svet rôznymi spôsobmi. Cieľom je však jeho zmena.

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 fotka

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
Sú iba prenasledovaní, prenasledujúci, zaneprázdnení a unavení.

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Zdroj: The Great Gatsby

Oscar Wilde fotka

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”
Nikdy som neodkladal na zajtra veci, ktoré som mohol spraviť aj pozajtra.

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

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
Radšej budem ľutovať veci, ktoré som urobil, ako ľutovať veci, ktoré som neurobil.

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 fotka

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
Každý človek vedie tri životy, a to verejný, súkromný a tajný.

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Zdroj: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

Mark Twain fotka

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Súčasťou tajomstva úspechu v živote je jesť to, čo máte radi a nechať jedlo, aby si to vo vašom vnútri vybojoval sám.

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.”
Všetci ľudia majú strach, ale odvážni ho odkladajú a idú vpred, niekedy až k smrti, ale vždy k víťazstvu.

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Zdroj: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Stephen King fotka

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
Čas vezme všetko, či už to chcete, alebo nie.

Stephen King kniha The Green Mile

Zdroj: The Green Mile

Teresa of Ávila fotka

“Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.”
Nenechajte sa ničím rušiť a vystrašiť. Všetko raz prejde. Boh sa nezmení. Trpezlivosťou sa dá všetko dosiahnuť.

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

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Niet hriechu okrem hlúposti.

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

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

William Faulkner fotka

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
Nebuď "spisovateľ". Buď písaním.

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

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Rybári vedia, že more je nebezpečné a búrka je desivá, ale nikdy im nepripadali tieto nebezpečenstvá ako dostatočný dôvod na to, aby zostali na brehu.

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

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Veľké veci sú tvorené sériami malých vecí, ktoré sa spoja.

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. fotka

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Musíme žiť spolu ako bratia alebo spolu zahynúť ako blázni.

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 fotka

“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
Vždy som si myslel, že činy mužov sú najlepšou interpretáciou ich myšlienok.

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 fotka

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
Hudba robí človeka tak romantickým - alebo prinajmenšom niekomu vždy lezie na nervy - čo je dnes to isté.

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

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
Logika ťa dostane z bodu A do bodu B. Predstavivosť ťa privedie všade.

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 fotka

“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 vec, ak chcete byť spisovateľom. Jedinou skutočnou požiadavkou je však schopnosť pamätať si každú jazvu.

Stephen King (1947) American author
Bertrand Russell fotka

“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
Existujú dva motívy na čítanie knihy: prvý, že sa vám páči; druhý, môžete sa o tom pochváliť.

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

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Oscar Wilde fotka

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
Človek by nikdy nemal dôverovať žene, ktorá prezradí svoj skutočný vek. Žena, ktorá ho niekomu prezradí, by prezradila čokoľvek.

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

“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.”
Som najšťastnejšie stvorenie na svete. Možno to už povedali aj iní ľudia, ale nie s takouto spravodlivosťou. Som šťastnejší dokonca aj ako Jane; ona sa len usmieva, ja sa smejem.

Jane Austen kniha Pride and Prejudice

Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice

Charles Baudelaire fotka

“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 len jedno skutočné čaro: čaro hry. Ale čo ak je nám ľahostajné, či vyhráme alebo prehráme?

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

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
Cieľom života je sebarozvoj. Aby sme si dokonale uvedomili svoju povahu - to je dôvod, prečo existujeme.

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

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Dajte mi šesť hodín na to, aby som pokácal strom, a prvé štyri strávim ostrením sekery.

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 fotka

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Zlatko, som génius, ale okrem mňa o tom nikto nevie.

Charles Bukowski kniha Factotum

Zdroj: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

Bob Dylan fotka

“All I can be is me- whoever that is.”
Všetko, čím môžem byť, som len ja - nech je to ktokoľvek.

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

“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.”
Kosť pre psa nie je charita. Charita je kosť zdieľaná so psom, keď si hladný rovnako ako 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 fotka

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Nič v živote nie je také vzrušujúce, aby sa po ňom strieľalo bez výsledku.

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 fotka

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
Každý veľký mysliteľ sa viac bojí porozumenia ako nesprávneho pochopenia.

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

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
Nepočúvajte zlo, nehovorte nič zlé a nebudete pozvaní na žiadne večierky.

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

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Vymýšľame si príšernosti, ktoré nám pomáhajú vyrovnať sa s tými skutočnými.

Stephen King (1947) American author
William Shakespeare fotka

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
Boh ti dal jednu tvár, a ty si robíš inú.

Zdroj: Hamlet

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. fotka

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
Myslite na veľké veci, ale vychutnávajte si malé radosti.

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

Zdroj: Life's Little Instruction Book

Terry Pratchett fotka

“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.”
Mnohí ľudia si pri prvom stretnutí s Aziraphalom vytvorili tri dojmy: že je Angličan, že je inteligentný a že je teplejší ako strom plný opíc na oxide dusnom.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

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

Emile Zola fotka

“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.”
Málo mi záleží na kráse alebo dokonalosti. Nezáleží mi na významných storočiach. Záleží mi len na živote, boji, intenzite. Vo svojej generácii som v pohode.

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

"My Hates" (1866).

Bruce Lee fotka

“Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Vyvážte svoje myšlienky činmi. Ak strávite príliš veľa času premýšľaním nad nejakou vecou, nikdy ju nespravíte.

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

Zdroj: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43

Elbert Hubbard fotka

“Never explain — your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.”
Nevysvetľuj, tvoji priatelia to nepotrebujú a nepriatelia by ti aj tak neverili.

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 fotka

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
Bez ohľadu na to, koľko utrpenia ste prežili, nikdy sa nebudete chcieť vzdať týchto spomienok.

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

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
Všetci sme zlomení, to je spôsob, akým svetlo prichádza​.

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 fotka

“Independence is happiness.”
Nezávislosť je šťastie.

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

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

Žiješ len dvakrát: Raz, keď sa narodíš a raz, keď sa pozrieš smrti do tváre.

Ian Fleming kniha You Only Live Twice

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

Gabriel García Márquez fotka

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
Sex je útechou, ktorú máte, keď nemôžete mať 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 fotka

“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.”
Vždy pamätajte, že byť svojráznym nie je len vaše právo, je to vaša povinnosť.

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

“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.”
Osamelosť nevzniká z toho, že človek okolo seba nemá žiadnych ľudí, ale vzniká skôr z neschopnosti komunikovať o veciach, ktoré sa mu zdajú byť dôležité, alebo zo zastávania určitých názorov, ktoré ostatní považujú za neprípustné.

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

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.”
Čokoľvek, čo myseľ človeka dokáže vymyslieť a veriť tomu, to dokáže aj dosiahnuť.

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 fotka

“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.”
Málokto je schopný rovnocenne vyjadrovať názory, ktoré sa líšia od predsudkov ich spoločenského prostredia. Väčšina ľudí nie je schopná vytvárať si takéto 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 fotka

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
Beriem ho za odvážnejšieho, keď prekonáva svoje túžby, než keď si podmaňuje svojich nepriateľov, pretože najťažšie víťazstvo je nad sebou.

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

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
Opäť je tu jar. Zem je sťa dieťa, ktoré pozná básne naspamäť.

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

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
Veľká časť toho, čo nazývame manažmentom, spočíva v tom, že ľuďom sťažujeme prácu.

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

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Ach, ženy. Vďaka nim stúpame vyššie, no padáme častejšie.

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

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
My, ktorí si myslíme, že čoskoro umrieme, sa budeme smiať čomukoľvek.

Terry Pratchett kniha Night Watch

Zdroj: Night Watch

Niccolo Machiavelli fotka

“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.”

Niccolo Machiavelli kniha Vladár

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 fotka

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”
Vyžaduje si to obrovské úsilie, aby ste sa oslobodili od spomienok.

Paulo Coelho kniha Aleph

Zdroj: Aleph

John F. Kennedy fotka

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
Musíme si nájsť čas na to, aby sme sa zastavili a poďakovali ľuďom za to, že urobili hoci i len malý rozdiel v našich životoch.

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

“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 tým, že si pekný, aspoň nie tak, ako si ľudia myslia, že má pekný človek vyzerať. Tvoja tvár sa zdá byť milá. Ale tvoje oči - sú nádherné. Sú divoké, bláznivé, ako nejaké zviera, ktoré vykúka z horiaceho lesa.

Charles Bukowski kniha Women

Zdroj: Women

Jean Paul Sartre fotka

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”
Neverila v nič, len jej skepsa jej bránila byť ateistkou.

Jean Paul Sartre kniha The Words

The Words (1964), speaking of his grandmother.

C.G. Jung fotka

“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 tejto hry fantázie sa ešte nikdy nezrodilo žiadne tvorivé dielo. Dlh, ktorý máme voči našej fantázii, je nevyčísliteľný.

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 fotka

“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.”
Možno je charakter človeka ako strom a jeho reputácia ako tieň toho stromu; tieň je to, čo si o ňom myslíme; strom je skutočnosť.

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 fotka

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Aké zbytočné je sadnúť si a písať, keď ste sa nepostavili a nežili.

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 fotka

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Niektoré veci sú vzácne, pretože netrvajú dlho.

Oscar Wilde kniha The Picture of Dorian Gray

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Robert Fulghum fotka

“Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.”
Čokoľvek, čo sa neoplatí robiť, nestojí za to, aby ste to urobili dobre.

Robert Fulghum kniha All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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

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