A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
开始
Beginning
I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.
我开始认为,在你发疯之前,你只能连任两届。
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
今天不是结束的开始,就是开始的结束。今天,我们正在创造历史。
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
但我内心仍然有一种渴望。我才刚刚开始。我觉得我还有很多东西要学。
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
我从一开始就知道你需要知道的一件事。也就是说,音乐产业是一个产业。
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
深不可测的痛苦可以被称为洗礼,重生,进入一个新的状态。
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
在通往真理的道路上,一个人只能犯两个错误;不走完全程,也不开始。
My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.
我的妻子开始教我如何找回梦,一点一点地,似乎起作用了。
For the beginning is assuredly the end - since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
因为开始肯定是结束,因为除了我们自己的复杂性之外,我们一无所知。
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
无论是对人还是对事,认识的第一步就是对自己的无知有一个明确的轮廓。
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
从一开始,我就想过自己的生活,我耐心地支撑着这种愿望,抵御风吹雨打。
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
这还不是结束。这甚至不是结束的开始。但这或许是开端的终结。
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.
选择路的开端的,就是选择路所引到的地方。是手段决定了目的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
人不是终点,而是起点。现在是第二周的开始。我们是第八天的孩子。
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
爱是永恒的象征;它混淆了所有的时间概念;抹去所有对开始的记忆,所有对结束的恐惧。
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
也许,我一开始就应该成为一名爵士歌手。
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
我学会了不去担心爱情;但我要用我全部的心来纪念它的到来。
You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
你知道,刚开始,当你拿到第一份工资单时,你不得不借钱来支付工资单,你前一天晚上睡不着觉,你很快对自己说,‘也许我应该再工作几年。这是发人深省的。