A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
把好句子,读进生活里。
一句英文,一种视角。慢慢读,总有一句与你共鸣。
So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
很多人喜欢生活在戏剧中,因为它很舒服。这就像一个人呆在一段糟糕的婚姻或关系中——实际上更容易留下来,因为他们知道每天会发生什么,而不是离开,不知道会发生什么。
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
今天是读者,明天是领导者。
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
没有水就没有生命。没有蓝色,就没有绿色。
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
质量意味着在没有人注意的时候把事情做好。
Always remember you are braver than you believe stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.
永远记住,你比你相信的更勇敢,比你看上去的更强大,比你认为的更聪明。
So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.'
所以我对体育老师说:‘你能教我劈叉吗?他说:“你有多灵活?”“我说:我星期二不能去。”
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
我写作是为了了解我的处境,理清现实的困惑,驱除内心的恶魔。但最重要的是,我写作是因为我爱它!
I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
我深信,明智地同新闻界打交道对人道主义使命的成功和效力是最重要的。
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
语言不能很好地表达思想。它们总是在表达出来之后立刻变得有些不同,有些扭曲,有些愚蠢。
I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.
我想我可能很乐意把我个人的痛苦从我的工作中排除出去。但我被我的听众改变了,他们说,你在早期歌曲中无意中表现给我们的私人痛苦也是我们的。
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
艺术是永恒的,时间是短暂的。
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
除非我们先做梦,否则什么也不会发生。