Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

  • -- Elizabeth Gilbert 伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特

我不再追求绝对的确定性。我从惨痛的经历中认识到,命运总是以一种有趣的、甚至是怜悯的眼光看待我们最刺耳的信念。

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However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

无论接受这一结论对我来说是多么痛苦,我都不得不说:因为黑人只有一种命运。它是白色的。

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

我认为,人们需要有勇气坚持自己的信念,而不是试图愚弄人们,让他们认为自己一夜之间就改变了。

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

科索沃的命运显然是在某个时候加入欧盟。

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

哦,从别人的嘴里听到自己的信念是多么甜蜜。