A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
祝愿
Wishes
Wishes won't wash dishes.
愿望不能洗碗。
Where there is peace, God is.
哪里有和平,哪里就有上帝。
May it always be spring with you.
愿春天永远与你同在。
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
伟大的人物有目标;其他人的愿望。
It is better to keep peace than to make peace.
维持和平比缔造和平好。
We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
我们并不总是知道自己的愿望。
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
想要别人服从,就必须知道如何指挥。
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
神要灭绝的人,必先叫他发狂。
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
伟大的灵魂有意志;弱者只有愿望。
Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
当人们想要使用借口时,借口是不需要的。
Making wishes on stars, she's a dreamer and she knows it.
对着星星许愿,她是个梦想家,她知道这一点。
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
我一向尊重艺术家的意愿。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
每个人都希望真理站在自己一边,但不是每个人都希望站在真理一边。
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
我若有德行、有价值、谁不叫我存挂虑呢。
If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
如果上帝希望揭示他对这个世界的爱,这种爱必须是这个世界能够认识到的东西,不管它是完全不同的,或者事实上是完全不同的。
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
如果一个人能实现他一半的愿望,他的麻烦就会加倍。
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
你想要多少并不重要。真正重要的是你有多想要它。问题的程度和复杂性并不重要,重要的是解决问题的意愿。
And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
我不相信孩子是无辜的。事实上,没有人真的相信。去操场看看孩子们在沙箱里玩就好了!甜蜜孩子的浪漫概念仅仅是父母表达自己的愿望。