What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

  • -- Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利

我们预料不到的事很少发生,但我们预料不到的事往往发生。

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

如果我们仅仅因为野兽不能阻止我们,因为我们在为生存而斗争中支持自己的一方,那么出于同样的原因而把蠢货、罪犯、敌人或资本家斩了,也就合乎逻辑了。

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

在时间的风景中,很少有地方比等待某人或某件事在未来某个未知的时刻到来更不舒服的了。

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

民有、民享、民享。我一听到就崩溃了;我说,一把一把的,一把一把的,因为这就是真正发生的事情。

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

我个人没有幽默感,所以我不知道一个角色有什么好笑的……这恰好是我生活的一个特点。

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

如果你从来没有问过自己关于一篇文章的意义的任何问题,你就不能指望这本书能给你任何你尚未拥有的洞察力。

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

我们必须支持我们自己的电影。如果我们不这样做,我们怎么能指望别人支持他们呢?

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

生活有百分之十是发生在你身上的事,有百分之九十是你如何对待它。

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

人们普遍认为奴隶不仅要工作,还要唱歌。

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

智慧由对结果的预期构成。

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

只有对个人,灵魂才会被赋予。