A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
选择
Choice
Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.
我们的个人消费选择具有生态、社会和精神方面的影响。是时候重新审视我们根深蒂固的一些观念了，这些观念构成了我们生活方式的基础。
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
在史前时代，人类在危急时刻往往只有两种选择:战斗或逃跑。在现代，幽默为我们提供了第三种选择;战斗，逃跑，或者大笑。
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。
"The best teachers don't give you the answers. They just point the way and let you make your own choices. your own mistakes. That way you get all the glory. And you deserve it."
最好的老师不会给你答案。他们只是为你指路，让你自己做选择。你自己的错误。这样你就能获得所有的荣耀。这是你应得的。”
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
在这个狭小的星球上，我们只有两个未知的世界可以选择。其中一个诱惑我们——啊!活在那样的梦里，真是个好梦!——另一个人第一次呼吸就把我们闷死了。
I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
我热爱我的生活，但我的选择让我不堪重负。倾听内心的感受，并在它们出现时满足其中的一些冲动，这是非常重要的。
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
单口相声就像划船:当你选择去做的时候，它很有趣也很浪漫。但是，如果你别无选择，只能呆在划船里，那就没有那么愉快了;这是生存。
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.
我写的所有故事都是强迫性的。我写过的任何东西都是因为我别无选择。我写故事是因为我迫不及待地想要讲述它，迫不及待地想要看到它的结局。
People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.
人们必须旅行，我们想要的是人们在公共交通上有其他选择，这样他们就可以选择他们将要旅行的方式。
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
在我看来，如果你或我必须在两种思想或行动之间做出选择，我们应该记住我们的死亡，并努力活着，使我们的死亡不会给世界带来快乐。
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
每一种艺术，每一种探索，同样每一种行动和选择，都被认为是为了某种善;因此，善被正确地宣布为一切事物的目标。
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
每个人都有四种天赋——自我意识、良知、独立意志和创造性想象力。这些给了我们终极的人类自由……选择、回应和改变的能力。
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
礼貌是在你的思想中进行选择的艺术。
To not act is a choice too.
不行动也是一种选择。
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
我们在这个国家所发现的，也许我们现在更加意识到的，是我们曾经遇到的一个问题，即使是在最好的时候，那就是那些睡在栅栏上的人，你可能会说，无家可归的人，是我们自己选择的。
To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough.
在这个行业里，拥有巨大的诚信，只做杰出的选择是非常困难的。
You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
你必须训练你的直觉——你必须相信你内心的小声音，它告诉你该说什么，该做什么决定。
The choices we make in our life don't have to define us. It's what we learn from them that's important.
我们在生活中所做的选择并不一定要定义我们。重要的是我们能从他们身上学到什么。