My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

  • -- Ellen Willis 艾伦·威利斯

我内心深处的冲动是乐观的,在我看来,这种态度在精神上是必要的,是正确的,但在理智上却是可疑的。

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We're optimistic about ourselves, we're optimistic about our kids, we're optimistic about our families, but we're not so optimistic about the guy sitting next to us.

我们对自己很乐观,对我们的孩子很乐观,对我们的家庭也很乐观,但是我们对坐在我们旁边的人就不那么乐观了。

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

有两种相反的冲动支配着这个人的大脑——一种是理智的,另一种是古怪的。它们定期交替。

Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.

首先,我们几乎都错了,我当然也包括我自己。

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

人类的创造冲动总是与占有冲动相斗争。

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

叹息,却不退缩;悲伤,但不后悔。

I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful.

我不能乐观。我可以满怀希望。