All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

  • -- William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳

我们所有人都未能实现完美的梦想。因此,我对我们的评价是基于我们出色地完成了不可能完成的任务。

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Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

或者是遗产和理想,我们的准则和标准——我们赖以生存和教给孩子们的东西——被我们如何自由地交流思想和感情所保留或削弱。

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

我们已经留出数千万英亩的西北森林作为永久用地。失业率不是上升了,而是下降了。经济增长了。

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

游戏节目的设计是为了让我们对我们所受的教育中剩下的随机的、无用的事实感觉更好。

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

人生的目标就是让你的心跳与宇宙的节拍相匹配,让你的本性与自然相匹配。

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

爱国是一件了不起的事情。但为什么爱要止步于边界?

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

在外表上是那么辉煌,那么虚荣;这只不过是一块没有大脑的镀金的石头。

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的,但它不会阻止我们购买它。

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

让你的工作成为成名的基础,这是一种更稳定的感觉。

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

我们可以改变我们的生活。我们可以做我们想做的,拥有我们想做的,成为我们想成为的。

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

我认为每一张专辑都比上一张好。我就是这么看的。

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

为了达到不可能,我们必须尝试荒谬。

Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.

放松点,乔治,我只是在搭配我的领子和袖口。

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

理智和幸福是不可能结合的。

Wonder is the basis of worship.

奇迹是崇拜的基础。