A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
装门面;考验就在这里。世人会把其余的功劳归于你。
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
我希望有一天我能写一本书，版税将用来支付我赠送的书的版税。
Just when you’re about to give up, remember why you held on so long in the first place.
当你要放弃的时候，想想当初为什么坚持了这么久。
Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the lord can bless you with.
永远不要放弃你的梦想…因为你永远不知道主能赐给你什么。
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.
当你停止追逐错误的事情时，你就给了正确的事情一个抓住你的机会。
Sometimes, God doesn't give what you ask, But he makes you feel good with what you have.
有时候，上帝没有给你想要的，但是他让你对你所拥有的感觉很好。
You don't get to choose what life gives you, but you do get to choose how to receive it.
你不能选择生活给予你什么，但你可以选择如何接受它。
Guys, the most precious gift you can give a girl is the gift of your time and attention.
男孩们，你能给女孩的最珍贵的礼物就是你的时间和注意力。
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
形而上学是一家餐馆，他们给你三万页的菜单，却没有食物。
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
求你给我四年的时间教训我的儿女，叫我所撒的种子永不拔出。
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
今天，给一个陌生人送上你的微笑吧。这可能是他一天中看到的唯一的阳光。
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
我看着一件已经死去的事情，并试图赋予它新的生命。从某种意义上说，我是一个标本剥制师。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
我已经和魔鬼做了交易。他说如果我去那里，他会给我一个有空调的地方，所以我不会把所有的火都扑灭。
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
友谊是多余的，像哲学，像艺术……它没有生存价值;相反，它是那些赋予生存价值的东西之一。
My kids give me the balance to live right.
我的孩子们给了我正确生活的平衡。
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
生活是美好的，但它缺少形式。这是艺术的目的，给它一些。
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
当我讲课时，我接受人们看表，但我不能容忍的是，当他们看表时，把表举到耳边，看表是否停了。
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
诗歌的优点是能够在一半的时间里说两倍于散文的话，缺点是，如果你没有把全部的注意力放在诗歌上，那么你似乎在两倍的时间里说了一半的话。