Englische Zitate

Englische Zitate mit Übersetzung | seite 9

“To perceive is to suffer.”
Wahrnehmen heißt Leiden.

“Simplicity is a matter of taste”
Einfachheit ist eine Sache des Geschmacks.

“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”

“Nothing is real.”
Nichts ist real.

“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
Wenn ich es mir vorstellen und glauben kann, dann kann ich es auch erreichen.

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
Das Talent trifft ein Ziel, das niemand anderes treffen kann; das Genie trifft ein Ziel, das niemand sonst sehen kann.

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
Der Hauptfeind der Kreativität ist der gesunde Menschenverstand.

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
Ich kenne die Frage nicht, aber Sex ist definitiv die Antwort.

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”

“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
Um zuerst über das Leben zu schreiben, muss man es leben.

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
Wohin du auch gehst, geh mit deinem ganzen Herzen.

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
Gib mir Bücher, französischen Wein, Obst, schönes Wetter und ein bisschen Musik, die von jemandem kommt, den ich nicht kenne.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Es spielt keine Rolle, wie langsam Sie gehen, solange Sie nicht aufhören.

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Es ist besser alleine zu sein als in einer schlechten Gesellschaft.

“I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.”
Ich bin kein Opfer emotionaler Konflikte. Ich bin menschlich.

“Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead. The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.”

“Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.”

“You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.”

“What I need is to believe in myself again— for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

“Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.”

“Wise men don't need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others, the happier he is.
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.”

“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”

“The aim of a student’s life should be to overcome any illusions or prejudices he may have and to give up mean habits. He should, and it is his duty to, propagate education among his illiterate brothers and to consider the propagation of education as part of his own education. He ought to acquire knowledge for the sake of knowledge and he should not be unaware of the needs of life.”

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”
Krieg: ein Massaker von Leuten, die sich nicht kennen, zum Vorteil derer, die sich kennen, aber nicht gegenseitig umbringen.

“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.”

“Feathers shall raise men towards the heaven even as they do the birds. That is by the letters written by their quills.”

“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
Wenn ich wüsste, dass die Welt morgen endet, würde ich heute noch einen Baum pflanzen.

“So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

“(…) Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. (…).”
(…) Beobachten Sie Ihren Geist, wie er entsteht, wie er funktioniert. Wenn Sie Ihren Geist beobachten, entdecken Sie sich selbst als Beobachter. Wenn Sie regungslos stehen und nur zuschauen, entdecken Sie sich selbst als das Licht hinter dem Beobachter. (…).

“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet”

“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”

“Happiness is the readiness to be happy.”

“You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.”

“You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.”

“The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely.”

“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.

“The more you use it, the more it produces;
the more you talk of it, the less you understand.”

“From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it.”

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do. ”

“To lose your prejudices you must travel.”

“It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really.”

“Do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”

“We don’t need natural disasters. We’re building our own.”

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”
Merke dir, Meilensteine feierlich zu würdigen, weil du dich auf die Strasse, die vor dir liegt, vorbereitest.

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ein Sklave ist derjenige, der auf jemanden wartet, der kommt und ihn befreit.

“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“The person who lives life fully, glowing with life's energy, is the person who lives a successful life.”

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

“A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.”

“We must consider that wisdom is embedded in knowledge. Here is the list of the desires in order: Love, wealth, health, power and knowledge.”

“There's no need to lower or raise yourself above the things that you are not. Live according to your ability. Be true to yourself and your own nature.”

“There is a God and I'm going to serve him for the rest of my life.”

“The brief madness of bliss is experienced only by those who suffer the most deeply.”

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
Manchmal werden Dinge möglich, wenn wir sie schlimm genug wollen.

“Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.”
Jene Minuten, die ich auf der Bühne bin, sind die besten! Dort zu sein und die Menge anzuschauen und ihre Gesichter zu sehen, zu hören, wie sie die positiven Worte aus den Liedern singen.

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Nur wenige sehen mit eigenen Augen und fühlen mit eigenen Herzen.

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Es hat keinen Sinn, auf gestern zurückzugehen, weil ich damals eine andere Person war.

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
Männer wollen immer die erste Liebe einer Frau sein. Das ist ihre ungeschickte Eitelkeit. Wir Frauen haben einen subtileren Instinkt für diese Dinge. Was (Frauen) mögen, ist die letzte Romanze eines Mannes.

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Jeder kann mit den Leiden eines Freundes sympathisieren, aber es erfordert eine sehr feine Natur, um mit dem Erfolg eines Freundes zu sympathisieren.

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
Das Problem der meisten Menschen ist, dass sie eher mit ihren Hoffnungen, Ängsten oder Wünschen denken, als mit ihrem Verstand.

“With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.”
Mit all meinen Ideen und Torheiten fand ich eines Tages eine Firma für die Werbung der schönen, aber unzuverlässige Ideen.

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
Wenn dir das Leben eine Zitrone gibt, mach Limonade draus.

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Das Vorrecht innerhalb einer Lebensdauer besteht darin, der zu sein, der man ist.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”
Schönheit ist die Erleuchtung Ihrer Seele.

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
Es braucht viel Mut, die Welt in all ihrer verdorbenen Herrlichkeit zu sehen und sie trotzdem zu lieben.

“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”
Für Sie mag ich ein Atheist sein, doch für Gott bin ich die loyale Opposition.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Die einzige Voraussetzung für den Triumph des Bösen ist, daß gute Menschen nichts tun.

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
Keiner verdient deine Träne, denn der, der sie verdienen würde, würde dich nie zum weinen bringen.

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
Hüte gut in dir diesen Schatz, Güte. Wissen, wie man ohne zu zögern gibt, wie man ohne Reue verliert, wie man ohne Gemeinheit erwirbt.

“All real living is meeting.”
Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
Wahre Liebe mag selten sein - wahre Freundschaft ist noch seltener.

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Es ist absurd, Menschen in Gut und Böse zu unterteilen. Die Menschen sind entweder charmant oder langweilig.

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

“Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”
Unsere Tugenden und unsere Schwächen sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden, so wie Kraft und Stoff. Wenn sie sich trennen, dann existiert der Mensch nicht mehr.

“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
Wenn du etwas willst, hilft dir das ganze Universum, es zu erreichen.

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
Eines Tages kam eine Dame auf mich zu und sagte: ‚Sir! Sie sind betrunken “, worauf ich antwortete: Ich bin heute betrunken, gnädige Frau, und morgen werde ich nüchtern, Sie aber immer noch hässlich sein.

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Das Leben ist kein zu lösendes Problem, sondern eine zu erlebende Realität.

“Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”
Es gibt immer eine Frau, die dich vor einer anderen rettet, und wenn diese Frau dich rettet, macht sie sich bereit zu zerstören.