For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

  • -- Richard J. Needham 理查德·J·尼达姆

在你的前半生,人们会告诉你应该做什么;在下半场,他们会告诉你应该怎么做。

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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

习惯是第二天性,它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心,自然本身只是第一个习惯,就像习惯是第二天性一样。

It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!

这是不可能的;这是不可能的!我代表密西西比河谷的广大人民,以及它以西的人民,说,你们不能这样做!

Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

大多数人在奥运会后休息很长时间。我需要恢复正常的生活,所以我回到了游泳池。

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

一部电影用一秒钟的时间,用一张图片,就能做到小说家至少要用一页纸来描述的事情。

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

我从来没有做得好,当我被赞赏。当我成为死亡的目标时,我做得最好。

I never fail. It's just that the people around me succeed more than I.

我从未失败。只是我周围的人比我更成功。

And everything I'm dying to tell you is everything I wish you'd say.

我想告诉你的都是我希望你说的。

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

上帝永远不会告诉我们去做一些让肉体满足的事情。