“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”
Eine Frau sollte einen Mann besänftigen, aber nicht schwächen.
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed
Noah Brooks, scribe for the Sacramento Union, writing in the Harper’s Weekly for July 1865, 3 months after Lincoln had died, reported that the Lincoln once said this, at an unspecified date; as reported in "Did Abraham Lincoln Actually Say That Obama Quote?" by James M. Cornelius, The Daily Beast (9 August 2012) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/08/did-abraham-lincoln-actually-say-that-obama-quote.html
Posthumous attributions
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Wir haben Angst, uns zu sehr um etwas zu kümmern, aus Angst, dass die andere Person sich überhaupt nicht darum kümmert.
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
Wenn Gott so klein wäre, um verstanden zu werden, wäre Er nicht mehr groß genug, um verehrt zu werden.
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
Jeder, der schon einmal mit Armut zu kämpfen hatte, weiß, wie überaus teuer es ist, arm zu sein.
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
Freundschaft mit sich selbst ist sehr wichtig, denn ohne Freundschaft kann man sich mit niemandem auf der Welt anfreunden.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
Wir sollten alle anfangen zu leben, bevor wir zu alt werden. Angst ist dumm. Bedauern auch.
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Wo alle ähnlich denken, denkt keiner sehr viel.
The Stakes of Diplomacy http://books.google.com/books?id=cyFMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Where+all+think+alike+no+one+thinks+very+much%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage (1915)
“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.)”
Sünde liegt nur darin, andere Menschen unnötig zu verletzen. Alle anderen "Sünden" sind erfundener Blödsinn. (Sich selbst zu verletzen ist keine Sünde -- nur dumm.)
Quelle: Time Enough for Love
“"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.”
"Klassik." Ein Buch, das gelobt und nicht gelesen wird.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)
“The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
Der einzige Mann, der keine Fehler macht, ist der Mann, der nie etwas tut.
As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men's Hero http://www.bartleby.com/206/16.html
1900s
“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
Ich bin nicht asozial. Ich bin einfach nicht sozial.
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
Ich akzeptiere das Chaos, ich bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob es mich akzeptiert.
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
Ich erinnere mich, eines Morgens aufgewacht zu sein und alles mit der Farbe vergessener Liebe beschmiert vorgefunden zu haben.
Quelle: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Amerika ist das einzige Land, das von der Barbarei zur Dekadenz überging, ohne Zivilisation dazwischen.
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Lernen ohne Begierde verdirbt die Erinnerung, und es behält nichts, was es aufnimmt.
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Im Leben geht es nicht darum, sich selbst zu finden. Im Leben geht es darum, sich selbst zu erschaffen.
Variante: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”
Grenzenlose, unsterbliche Liebe strahlt mich an wie aus Millionen Sonnen. Ruft mich quer durch das Universum.
“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.”
Wenn Sie nicht wissen, wohin Sie fahren, führt Sie jede Straße dorthin.
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
Wir müssen frei sein, nicht weil wir Freiheit beanspruchen, sondern weil wir es praktizieren.
Quelle: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
Books, Brain Droppings (1997)
“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Bildung ist bewundernswert, aber man sollte sich von Zeit zu Zeit daran erinnern, dass das wirklich Wissenswerte nicht gelehrt werden kann.
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
Quelle: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
Variante: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Quelle: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
Kontext: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Kontext: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.<!-- ¶22
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Es gibt mehr Ding' im Himmel und auf Erden, als Eure Schulweisheit sich träumt
Quelle: Hamlet
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
Alles, was nur Geld kostet, ist billig.
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
Manches Buch ist wie ein Schlüssel zu unbekannten Räumen innerhalb des eigenen Schlosses.
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
Die Würde eines Menschen kann angegriffen, verwüstet, grausam verspottet werden, aber sie kann nie weggenommen werden, es sei denn, sie wurde abgegeben.
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
Alles auf der Welt dreht sich um Sex, außer Sex. Beim Sex geht es um Macht.
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.”
Sie war eher bereit die Existenz von Raum und Zeit zu leugnen als zuzugeben, dass Liebe vielleicht nicht ewig währen könnte.
Quelle: The Mandarins
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
Das meiste Böse auf dieser Welt wird von Menschen mit guten Absichten getan.
“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
Vierbeiner sind gut, Zweibeiner sind schlecht.
Vier Beine gut, zwei Beine böse.
Quelle: Animal Farm
“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
Quelle: Fledgling
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
Besser ist es, in der Hölle zu herrschen, als im Himmel dienen.
Variante: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Quelle: Paradise Lost
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.”
Kein Mann ist gut genug, um eine Frau ohne ihre Zustimmung zu regieren.
“We are our choices.”
Wir sind unsere Entscheidungen.
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”
Im Gebirge der Wahrheit kletterst du nie umsonst: Entweder du kommst schon heute weiter hinauf oder übst deine Kräfte, um morgen höher steigen zu können.
II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”
Andere haben es gesehen und gefragt warum. Ich habe gesehen, was es sein könnte und ich fragte warum nicht.
Quelle: Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Der Weg zur Hölle ist mit Adverbien gepflastert.
Quelle: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
Ist dies auch Wahnsinn, so ist doch Methode drin.
Quelle: Hamlet
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
Wenn du ein Geheimnis bewahren willst, musst du es auch vor dir verstecken.
Variante: For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
Quelle: 1984
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
Es dauert sehr lange, jung zu werden.
On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ
1950s
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
Wann immer du dich fühlst, als müsstest du jemanden kritisieren…
denk daran, dass kein Mensch auf der Welt, die Vorteile hatte, die du hattest.
Quoted, The Great Gatsby (1925)
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
Es war ein strahlend-kalter Apriltag, und die Uhren schlugen dreizehn.
Quelle: 1984
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Gut oder schlecht, das Leben ist Leben; das merkt man erst, wenn man es riskieren muss.
Quelle: The Black Obelisk
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Ich liebe es zu schauspielern. Es ist so viel realer als das Leben.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
Ich will nicht meinen Gefühlen ausgeliefert sein. Ich möchte sie benutzen, sie genießen und sie beherrschen.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Do not look for my heart any more; the beasts have eaten it.”
Suche nicht mehr nach meinem Herzen; die Bestien haben es gefressen.
Ne cherchez plus mon cœur; des monstres l’ont mangé.
"Causerie" [Conversation] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal/1857/Causerie
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
Quelle: Les Fleurs du Mal
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”
Manche Menschen gehen zu Priestern, andere in Poesie, ich zu meinen Freunden. --Bernard, Die Wellen
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
Sterne, verstecke deine Feuer; Lass kein Licht meine schwarzen und tiefen Wünsche sehen.
Quelle: Macbeth
“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
Niemand hat das Recht, in deinen Träumen zu regnen.
“[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
As discussed in this entry from Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/05/computers-useless/#more-2932, the origin seems to be the article "Pablo Picasso: A Composite Interview" by William Fifield which appeared in The Paris Review 32, Summer-Fall 1964, and collected a number of interviews Fifield had done with Picasso.
Common later variant: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." This variant seems to have arisen in the 1980s, the earliest known appearance in a book is Herman Feshbach, "Reflections on the Microprocessor Revolution: A Physicist's Viewpoint", in Man and Technology (1983), ed. Bruce M. Adkins, where the attribution is described as "rumoured". http://books.google.com/books?id=9EohAQAAIAAJ&q=Picasso
1960s
“Youth is wasted on the young.”
Jugend ist an die Jugendlichen verschwendet.
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.”
Quelle: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”
Wir sind alle Engel mit nur einem Flügel. Um fliegen zu können, müssen wir einander umarmen.
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
Du sprichst unendlich viel von nichts.
Quelle: The Merchant of Venice
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
Das Lesen aller guten Bücher ist wie ein Gespräch mit den besten Männern der vergangenen Jahrhunderte.
“Love is the flower you've got to let grow.”
Quelle: Lyrics, Mind Games (1973)
Kontext: We all been playing those mind games forever
Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil.
Doing the mind guerrilla,
Some call it magic — the search for the grail.
Love is the answer and you know that for sure.
Love is a flower, you got to let it — you got to let it grow.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
La inspiración existe, pero tiene que encontrarte trabajando.
Attributed from posthumous publications
Quelle: Tomás R. Villasante (1994), Las ciudades hablan: identidades y movimientos sociales en seis metrópolis latinoamericanas. p. 264.
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
Ein Mann kann nur er selbst sein, solange er allein ist; und wenn er die Einsamkeit nicht liebt, wird er die Freiheit nicht lieben; denn nur wenn er allein ist, ist er wirklich frei.
Quelle: Essays and Aphorisms
“Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops.”
Überall, wo es eine erzwungene Rechtgläubigkeit gibt, oder davon Zweien, wie es häufig vorkommt, hört gutes Schreiben auf.
"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Quelle: 1984
Kontext: Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable. It can never permit either the truthful recording of facts or the emotional sincerity that literary creation demands. But to be corrupted by totalitarianism one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. The mere prevalence of certain ideas can spread a kind of poison that makes one subject after another impossible for literary purposes. Wherever there is an enforced orthodoxy — or even two orthodoxies, as often happens — good writing stops. This was well illustrated by the Spanish civil war. To many English intellectuals the war was a deeply moving experience, but not an experience about which they could write sincerely. There were only two things that you were allowed to say, and both of them were palpable lies: as a result, the war produced acres of print but almost nothing worth reading.
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Das Publikum ist wunderbar nachsichtig. Es verzeiht alles außer Genie.
Quelle: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
Jeder Krieg ist ein Symptom für das Versagen des Menschen als denkendes Tier.
“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
Einige der schlimmsten Fehler in meinem Leben waren Haarschnitte.
“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
Nichts kann dir Frieden bringen, außer du selber.
Quelle: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Sei immer ein Dichter, auch in der Prosa.
“All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.”
Ich will nur, dass du mich liebst. Nicht wegen dem, was ich tun kann oder wie ich aussehe oder weil ich dich liebe - nur weil ich da bin.
Quelle: A Breath of Snow and Ashes
“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
Variante: To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Quelle: Unlimited Power (1986), p. 237
“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
Manchmal glitzert Glas mehr als Diamanten, weil es mehr zu beweisen hat.
Quelle: The Truth
“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
Im Himmel fehlen alle interessanten Menschen.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
Und jetzt, wo du nicht perfekt sein musst, kannst du gut sein.
Quelle: East of Eden
“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12
“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.”
Quelle: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 9 : The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought
“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
In Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft
Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ-xgfJkNNgC&pg=PA89&dq=%22There+is+only+one+tragedy+in+the+end,+not+to+have+been+a+saint%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIrLb4nOL6yAIVhjk-Ch1XSQVB#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20only%20one%20tragedy%20in%20the%20end%2C%20not%20to%20have%20been%20a%20saint%22&f=false
“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)
“No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.”
Niemand ist fähig zu führen, der nicht bereit ist, geführt zu werden.
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 15, line 4
Compare with the following : No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471).
Moral Essays
“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
Die Welt ist voller wunderbarer Dinge, die du noch nicht gesehen hast. Gib niemals die Chance auf, sie zu sehen.
Online tweet, in response to an extremely depressed person contemplating https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/595148783056527360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etonline.com%2Fnews%2F163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up%2F suicide, as quoted in "J.K. Rowling Sends Beautiful Message to Fan Who Wants to 'Finally Give Up'" by Alex Ungerman ET Online (5 May 2015) http://www.etonline.com/news/163965_jk_rowling_sends_beautiful_message_to_fan_who_wants_to_finally_give_up/
2010s
As quoted in Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 75
On temptation - "'ATTRIBUTING THE SATELLITES SUCCESS TO ME IS BLASPHEMY' – T.B. JOSHUA" http://www.modernghana.com/print/247180/1/attributing-the-satellites-success-to-me-is-blasph.html Modern Ghana (November 4 2009)