Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

  • -- Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. 海伍德·坎贝尔·布鲁恩

人们在沙漠中架起了桥梁,修筑起了公路,然而他们成功地争辩说,缝一颗钮扣的工作超出了他们的能力范围。因此,他们不需要缝扣子。

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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

人们应该诚实、安静、舒适地生活在一起,这是有必要的,他们应该生活在上帝的意志下,敬畏神的力量,希望取悦上帝,并害怕他们的行为分别冒犯他。

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country.

我对这一要求作出了回应,因为在这段时间里,当我们对我们的男女军人提出如此高的要求时,特别重要的是,我们要适当地纪念那些为国家服务而牺牲的人。

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

一个成功的人不一定比她那些不太成功的同龄人更擅长解决问题;她的模式识别设备刚刚学会了什么问题值得解决。

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

我意识到出名的一些陷阱;如果你成功了是件好事,但是当你失败的时候,它会让你更加难以承受。

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God.

我们在世俗上的成功并不能得到保证,但是我们获得属灵成功的能力完全取决于我们自己,这要感谢上帝的恩典。

Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job.

没有人能成功,如果他不爱他的工作,爱他的工作。

I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

我不知不觉成了厌食症的代言人。

All men are difficult.

所有的人都很难相处。