A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
事情
Things
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
我们必须经常思考事情,我们必须思考事情的本来面目,而不是人们所说的那样。
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
我喜欢生物医学,我喜欢天文学,你不能在幻想的环境中做太多事情。
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
你知道,在我漫长的公众生活中,我发现我没有说过的话从来没有伤害过我。
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
经济学家是专家,他明天就会知道为什么他昨天预测的事情今天没有发生。
It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.
这只是证明我在这里呆了很长时间,我想,这些年来我做了正确的事情。
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
我的记忆力很好,但是我知道我也忘记了很多事情,为了生存,我把很多事情都压扁了。
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
智慧在于知道不同事物的相似之处,以及相似事物的不同之处。
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
我宁愿能欣赏我不能拥有的东西,也不愿拥有我不能欣赏的东西。
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
我的感觉是,时间使万物成熟;万物随时间而显露;时间是真理之父。
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
有时候你做了某件事,然后你就完蛋了。有时候是你没做的事情,你被搞砸了。
I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
我有零用钱,但我必须做些家务来挣。我想我一直想要自己的钱。
Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.
事情不会永远持续下去,你越快接受改变是不可避免的,你就会越快乐。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
美好的事物会分崩离析,而美好的事物也会一同破碎。
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
生活是世界上最珍贵的东西。大多数人是存在的,仅此而已。
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
留给我们的最冒险的事情之一就是上床睡觉。因为没有人能阻止我们的梦想。
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
有时候,我们会质疑自己在生活中做过的事情,但又有多少次,我们会质疑别人没有做过的事情。
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
当然,思想开放的问题在于,人们会坚持走过去,并试图把东西放进去。
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
有两件事是无限的:宇宙和人类的愚蠢;我对宇宙也不是很确定。