Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  • -- Ian Botham 博瑟姆

永久退休并不难。我当时就知道这是对的。我不再有能力达到我给自己设定的标准,而且前途无量。

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Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

社会可以走两条路——通往真正繁荣的道路,或通往人为刺激的道路。第一个目标是使所有人的生活水平永远提高;后者造成了无法持续的通胀繁荣。

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

我认为自己有能力傲慢和野蛮……发现自己最鄙视别人的地方是一件很残酷的事情。

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

年龄越大,你对生活的理解就越脆弱。我认为这是每天愉快地起床的好动机。

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express.

女人很难用男人创造的语言来表达自己的感情。

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

人们永远不会进步,除非他们看到一些比自己更高或更好的标准或榜样。

You grow more like Jesus every time you notice and care for those who feel unnoticed and unwanted.

每当你注意和关心那些觉得自己不被注意和不被需要的人时,你就会变得更像耶稣。

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

我认为自己是一个现实主义作家,而不是肥皂剧或情节剧的创作者。

Do everything at its right time, and one day will seem like three.

事事及时做,一日胜三日。

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

把愚人从他们所敬拜的锁链下解放出来是困难的。

Evil is only good perverted.

邪恶只是善良的变态。