You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

  • -- Rita Dove 丽塔·达夫

在你看到一些东西之前,你必须想象它是可能的。证据就在你面前,但是如果你不能想象以前从未存在过的东西,那是不可能的。

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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

我认为解释信仰是不可能的。这就像试图解释空气一样,一个人无法通过将空气分成不同的组成部分并科学地给它们贴上标签来解释空气。只有呼吸才能被理解。

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable -- tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

政治一直是可能性的艺术。如今,这往往是一种可能性的艺术——在没有更大远见、没有乐观和想象力的情况下,在边缘修修补补。

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

因为身体是一台机器,所以教育是可能的。教育是习惯的形成,是一种人工组织对身体自然组织的超诱导。

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

除非你在做某件事,而有些人却宁愿你不去做,否则这件事就不值得你去做。

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

只有一件事使梦想不可能实现:害怕失败。

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

再多巧妙的发明也不能取代想象力的基本要素。

It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.

如果有什么事情能改变一下就太好了。

There's no possible way you can get what you want.

你不可能得到你想要的东西。