To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  • -- E. M. Forster E·M·福斯特

以正确的方式让我们感到渺小是艺术的一种功能;男人只会让我们以错误的方式感到渺小。

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I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

我认为我们做正确的事情是有正确的理由的。我们这样做不是为了销售产品。我们这样做不是为了受欢迎。我们这么做是因为在我们的判断中,这些故事很重要,而且有这么长这么深。

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

我总是惊讶于一个普通的观察者是如何给予如此多的信任和重视醒着的事情,而不是那些发生在梦里的事情……男人。是他记忆中最重要的玩物。

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

我们既看见领航员驾驶我们所驾驶的航船,即使在沉船的时候,他也不让我们灭亡,我们的心就没有理由被恐惧所压倒,被疲惫所压倒。

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

我只能注意到,过去是美好的,因为一个人从来没有意识到当时的情绪。它后来扩展开来,因此我们对现在没有完整的情感,只有对过去的情感。

"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。”

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

每个人都想让你做好事,但在一个小镇上,你几乎毕业并结婚。大多数情况下,你结婚,生子,去看他们的足球比赛。

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

一个人的头脑总有办法在幕后发挥作用,他的意图突然变得清晰起来。

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

宽恕是一种意志的行为,而意志的作用与心灵的温度无关。

Single men and determined groups have been the only makers of space in which man could walk free.

单身男性和坚定的群体是唯一能让人类自由行走的空间创造者。

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

不是我们不知道的东西给我们带来麻烦,而是我们知道的东西没有给我们带来麻烦。

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

我们都是人,我们都是游手好闲的人。做一些可能是错的事情,但一定要做。

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

不是所有人都能做伟大的事情。但我们可以用伟大的爱做小事。

Lies may be easier to tell and hear but they don't make the truth disappear.

谎言可能更容易说出来和听到,但它们不会让真相消失。

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.

把一个人叫做动物就是奉承他;他是个机器,一个会走路的假阳具。

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.

是书让我觉得也许我并不完全是一个人。

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

熟能生巧。熟能生巧。

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.

如果我现在扭伤了脚踝,这届奥运会就不会举办了。

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

我由衷地感到美很大程度上来自内心。

Better to be with no one than to be with the wrong one.

与其与错误的人在一起,不如不与任何人在一起。

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

功能越小,管理越大。