It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

  • -- Lillian Florence Hellman 丽莲·海尔曼

这是一个悲伤的日子,当你发现不是意外、时间或运气,而是你自己让事情远离了你。

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

然后,在没有意识到的情况下,你试着在新的一天开始的时候提高自己;当然,你在这段时间里取得了很大的成就。任何人都可以做到这一点,这是免费的,当然是非常有益的。谁不知道,就必须从经验中学习和发现,平静的良心使人坚强。

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

对我来说,历史应该是快乐的源泉。这不仅仅是我们公民责任的一部分。对我来说,这是对活着的体验的扩展,就像文学、艺术或音乐一样。

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.

虽然电视在理论上和技术上是可行的,但在商业和财政上我认为它是不可能的,我们不需要浪费时间去梦想它的发展。

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

我相信轮回。我前世是个农民。下次,我想成为一只鹰。谁没有梦想过他们会飞呢?它们也是受保护的物种。

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

只有当一个人能够超越他个人主义所关心的狭窄范围,进入全人类所关心的更广泛的问题时,他才开始生活。

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

如果你想让孩子们脚踏实地,就要让他们负些责任。