A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choice
There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.
在平衡国家安全和个人自由方面,我们面临着艰难的选择。但这是一个必须面对的选择。
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
任何人,即使是我们当中效率最低的人,在意识到痛苦是一种选择之后,几乎不可能继续选择痛苦。
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
我感到非常幸运,能有这样一个渠道,来做一些我没有选择的事情,做音乐。我得赶时间。
Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them. Some opportunities never come again. Regret is a choice.
每一天的生活都给你机会去学习,成长,达到最好的状态。不要错过他们。有些机会一去不复返。后悔是一种选择。
I have not really experienced any significant conflict with anyone in regard to my choice to be vegan, although going out to eat is hard sometimes.
在我选择成为素食主义者的问题上,我并没有真正经历过与任何人的任何重大冲突,尽管有时候出去吃饭很困难。
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
信息能给你带来选择,而选择能带来力量——让自己了解你的选择和选择。永远不要停留在无知的黑暗中。
Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.
有时候你不得不在一堆错误的选择和没有正确的选择之间做出选择。你只需要选择那些错误的选择让你感觉最不错。
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
当母亲成为一种深切渴望的结果,而不是无知或意外的结果时,她的孩子将成为一个新种族的基础。
You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.
你不能强迫别人接受爱的表达。你只能提供。如果不被接受,你必须尊重他人的决定。
The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
环境,包括我的身体和我的父母,我可能会诅咒他们,是我的灵魂自己的选择,我不明白这一点,因为我已经忘记了。
We have no choice but to bounce back. This was a tough loss, but we can't dwell on it. We have to come back and be a little better tomorrow -- period.
我们别无选择,只能重新振作起来。这是一个惨痛的损失,但我们不能沉湎于此。我们必须回来,明天会更好一点——就是这样。
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
你不能让你的孩子做任何事。你所能做的就是让他们希望他们有。然后,他们会让你后悔你没有让他们后悔。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it's your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.
生活就像过山车。它有起有落。但你可以选择尖叫,也可以选择享受这段旅程。
I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑,我什么都能抵抗。
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.
似乎代表选择的活动往往是对公认实践的惰性复制。
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
骄傲常常伴随着力量,我们决不能认为正义是站在强者一边的。使用权力必须始终伴随着道德选择。
You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition.
你必须选择最好的,每天,不妥协…以你自己的美德和最高的抱负为指引。
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half ce.
如果我要重新开始生活,我倾向于认为我会进入广告行业,而不是几乎任何其他行业。在过去的半个世纪里,现代文明的水平在各民族中普遍提高。