A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人民
People
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
人们总是问我关于爱斯基摩人的事,但是冰岛没有爱斯基摩人。
Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.
只有结了婚的人才明白,你可以既痛苦又快乐。
I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.
我认为人们需要了解你,随着时间的推移,你会得到认可。
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
当人们还清自己的债务时,总得有人来付账。
I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.
我现在比以往任何时候都更喜欢现场演奏。我喜欢它,我认为它让你保持年轻。
We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.
我们必须谦卑自己,而你谦卑的方式就是服务他人。
Spending on other people has a bigger return for you than spending on yourself.
花在别人身上比花在自己身上有更大的回报。
I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.
我知道很多人认为我很傻。至少我不是受过教育的傻瓜。
You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but believe you do and it will come.
你也许并不总是拥有幸福的海洋,但相信你拥有,幸福就会到来。
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
自传是一个无与伦比的工具,讲述关于别人的真相。
How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.
我说话的方式对人们对我的看法和我说的话一样有很大的影响。
I'd seen people overstay their welcome and I didn't want that to happen at all.
我见过有人待得太久而不受欢迎,我根本不想发生这种事。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
说任何一个人都不适合自由,就是让贫困成为他们的选择,说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
人们常说“美在观者的眼中”,而我认为关于美最解放的事情就是意识到你是观者。这使我们能够在别人不敢看到的地方发现美,包括我们自己的内心。
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
现代的悲剧之一是,人们开始相信某人过去说过的一些话,可能是为了说明或挑衅的目的,实际上代表了那个人当时的信仰。
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
我倾向于看到人与人之间的相似之处,而不是不同点。
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
我认为英雄是任何一个真正想让这个地方变得更好的人。
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。