Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  • -- Patricia Ireland 帕特丽夏·爱尔兰

如果你不能赢,有些运动就不值得去做;另一些则必须以原则为基础而战,而不管成功的机会如何。

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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

让我更加坚信这一点的是,我在过去四年里在全国范围内参与了“儿童安全运动”。我很惊讶这些小孩子是怎么让他们的父母知道他们在那里是干什么的。

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

参加过奥运会的运动员也会得到报酬。他们中的许多人获得奖牌的时候,奥运会的成功与经济上的成功并不同步。

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

虽然从未被要求过任何东西的有趣之处在于,一段时间后,你开始觉得自己可能没有任何值得给予的东西。

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

真理永远是真理,不管缺乏理解、怀疑或无知。

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

撇开道德问题不谈,广告中的不诚实已被证明是非常无利可图的。

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.

有时候,政治活动让正派人的言行举止像完美的小丑。

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

每一次成功只会买到一张通往更困难问题的入场券。

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

有一种自我认识是值得拥有的,那就是了解自己的内心。

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

如果我没有反击,我可能会永远晕眩。