A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Rather
And I would rather be standing outside in the freezing cold with you than be warm in the arms of someone else.
我宁愿和你一起站在寒冷的户外，也不愿温暖地依偎在别人的怀里。
"Stop trying to understand everything, because sometimes it's not meant to understand. but, rather to accept."
“不要试着去理解所有的事情，因为有时候根本就不需要去理解。而是接受。”
Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
不要选择世界上最美的人。而是，选择那个让你的世界变得美丽的人。
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
我发现刻画一个商人相当容易。对我来说，温文尔雅、相当残酷和无能是天生的。
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
我宁愿娱乐并希望人们学到一些东西，而不是教育人们并希望他们得到娱乐。
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
我宁愿属于一个自由的穷国，也不愿属于一个不再热爱自由的富国。
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
如何达到清晰?主要是通过找麻烦和写作来为人们服务，而不是给他们留下深刻印象。
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
我喜欢把电影制作不仅仅看作是一种个人自我膨胀的行为，而是一种公共服务的行为。
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
我宁愿承受太多自由带来的不便，也不愿承受太少自由带来的不便。
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
时间是一条河，这只是表面现象。这是一幅广阔的风景，是观者的眼睛在移动。
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
除非你在做某件事，而有些人却宁愿你不去做，否则这件事就不值得你去做。
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
它不需要多数人的支持就能获胜，而需要的是愤怒的、不知疲倦的少数人的支持，他们热衷于在人们的头脑中燃起熊熊烈火。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
我宁愿贫穷时住在书屋里，也不愿做一个没有读书欲望的国王。
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
我宁愿坐在南瓜上独享一切，也不愿挤在天鹅绒垫子上。
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想，而是随着时间的推移，由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。
Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
我宁愿让他认为太阳绕着地球转，星星在明亮的蓝色天空中闪烁着那么多的光芒，也不愿让他把这件事放在心上。
I don't hate you, i'd just rather avoid you completely.
我不恨你，我只是想完全避开你。
What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
破碎的就是破碎的——我宁愿记住它最好的样子，也不愿把它修补好，然后一辈子看着那些破碎的地方。