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。
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.
我们在与一切竞争:海滩、商场、书店。图书馆现在正处于转型之中,夹在两股力量之间,一股是旧的方式,另一股是技术。图书馆承受着提供这两种服务的巨大压力。
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
你就是天空。其他一切都只是天气。
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
如果你害怕孤独,就不要试图做对。
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
我不是鸟;没有网能把我缠住;我是一个拥有独立意志的自由的人。
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
问的人傻五分钟,不问的人永远傻。
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
有些人因罪恶而上升,有些人因美德而堕落。
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
电视会发生。一旦它发生了,它就消失了。当它消失的时候,你继续前行,没有眼泪,没有愤怒,没有录像带。
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
与他人沟通最基本、最有力的方式就是倾听。只是听。也许我们给予彼此的最重要的东西就是我们的关注…爱的沉默往往比最善意的话语更能治愈伤痛,更能沟通。
You will forget about me. But it's okay i'm used to it.
你会忘记我的。不过没关系,我已经习惯了。
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
如果一个人今天没有比昨天更聪明,我认为他没有多大价值。
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
我想做的是找到现有的属性,或者想出属性、角度或故事来创造音乐戏剧。这是我的痴迷,最重要的是,我想继续在剧院工作。我认为它很有活力。
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
只要罪恶还能忍受,人类宁可忍受,也不愿为了正义而废除他们所习惯的形式。