Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

  • -- Samuel Richardson 塞缪尔·理查森

谦卑是一种优雅,它在高尚的环境中闪耀光芒,但在卑微的环境中却无法同样闪耀光芒,因为一个人在卑微的环境中可能已经过于谦卑了。

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

就我们的政治利益而言,我们比世界上任何其他民族都更彻底地是一个开明的民族。我们当中的每一个人都读书,在他所处的环境中,读书是如此的容易,以致于有空闲的时间来讨论进步和获取信息。

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

当我们不愿在自由社会和恐惧社会之间划清道德界限,当我们不愿称前者为善,称后者为恶时,我们将无法推动和平事业,因为和平不能与自由分离。

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

死亡来了,而不是幸福。因为当你试图寻找快乐的时候,你是在一个非常、非常模糊的雷区中航行,雷区充满了干扰、失望和欺骗。这就是为什么你必须为幸福而努力。

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

你可以从报道大城市的犯罪现场了解到人类的所有状况——你不需要去贝鲁特报道——但一名外国记者开始从一个不同的角度理解贫困。

When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.

当我们在冠军杯对阵波尔图的比赛中被淘汰的时候,我只睡了两个小时。那场比赛之后,和我在一起不太好。我一直在努力从我的系统中得到结果。

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

科学认识的上帝必须是唯一具有普遍规律的上帝,是从事批发而不是零售业务的上帝。他不能使他的程序适应个人的方便。

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.

时钟让我感兴趣的是,所有的东西都是手工制作的,但对于看钟的人来说,发生了一些不可思议的事情,除非你是钟表匠,否则无法解释。

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

但是,再一次,我不得不停下来,因为有太多的痛苦或太多的麻烦。退休后,我还做了一次肘部手术,只是为了能做一些正常的事情。

Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

你的高潮和低谷。高潮不会持续那么久,高潮是会发生的。现在很好,但你真的不能靠它生活。

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.

我们的锦标赛委员会承诺将审查参赛条件,并评估女性高尔夫球手如何与男性选手平等竞争公开场地。

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting "All the Gods are bastards."

他是那种雷雨天站在山顶上身穿湿铜盔甲大喊“诸神皆混蛋”的人。

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

我希望我的故事,我希望我的生活是…对人们的鼓励,尤其是在布鲁克林。我感到谦卑和幸福。

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.Come

我告诉别人我太笨了,不知道什么是不可能的。我的梦想太大了,有一半的时间我的梦想实现了

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

全能者所喜爱的,是富足人,却有贫穷人的谦卑;贫穷人,却有富足人的宽宏大量。

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

存在两种可能性:要么我们在宇宙中是孤独的,要么不是。两者都同样可怕。

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

艺术是大自然的右手。后者只给了我们生命,前者造就了我们人类。

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

如果可能的话,优雅地获得地位和财富;如果没有,无论如何要获得财富和地位。

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

那支小蜡烛的光射得多远啊!所以在这个淘气的世界里闪耀着善良的光芒。

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

她的每一步都是优雅的,她眼中有天堂, 在每一个手势中都有尊严和爱。

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

你必须喜欢你的角色,因为如果你不喜欢,其他人也不会喜欢。

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

也许,美德只不过是心灵上的礼貌。

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.

发展的最高形式是管理自己。

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

太阳也照射到污水坑里,没有被污染。

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

如果必须要做,那就必须优雅地做。

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

我希望它像一部高质量的免下车电影。

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

骄傲使我们做作,谦逊使我们真实。

Feels like you already knew .

感觉你已经知道了。