把这一句，留给此刻的你
Cover your ass-the bureaucrat’s method of protecting his posterior from posterity.
盖住你的屁股——官僚保护自己屁股不受子孙后代伤害的方法。
— William Safire 威廉·萨菲尔
同一主题，不同的表达
更多好句 ↗The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at eachother. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way.
在爱情故事中，目光的力量被滥用得如此之多，以致人们开始不相信它了。现在很少有人敢说两个人相爱是因为他们互相看了一眼。然而，爱就是这样开始的，而且只有这样。
Victor Hugo
维克多·雨果
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
所有成功努力的原则都是，不要试图做绝对最好的，而要做在我们力所能及的范围内，并且适合我们的气质和条件的事情。
John Ruskin
约翰·罗斯金
All power is a compound of time and patience.
所有的力量都是时间和耐心的综合体。
Jean de La Fontaine
拉封丹
Some battles don’t have a winner. Sometimes the best a good general can hope for is a ceasefire.
有些战斗没有赢家。有时候，一个好将军所能希望的最好的结果就是停火。
Emma Chase
艾玛·蔡斯
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
在我们获得强大的力量之前，我们必须获得智慧来好好利用它。
Ralph Waldo Emerson
拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
当我们对自己的创造力感到愤怒或沮丧时，我们把自己的力量放错了地方。我们让别人来决定我们的价值，然后我们对被低估感到愤怒。
Julia Margaret Cameron
玛格丽特·卡梅隆