A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

一个人靠相信某件事来生活,而不是靠对许多事情争论不休。

相关名言

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

激进派一般指的是认为自己能在不影响花的情况下拔出根部的人。保守主义者通常指的是想要保护一切的人,除了他自己保护任何东西的理由。

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

尤其是家庭,往往是你认为理所当然的。所有这些重要的事情,他们似乎都没有被注意到——这样做几乎成了第二天性。

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

对我来说,写歌是我必须做的仪式。我不只是等待灵感;我试着每天写一点。

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

爱情歌曲比什么都多。如果歌曲能让你有所作为,我们都会彼此相爱。

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

我们必须经常思考事情,我们必须思考事情的本来面目,而不是人们所说的那样。

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

一个什么都不读的人比一个除了报纸什么都不读的人受教育程度更高。