I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

  • -- Tom T. Hall 汤姆·T·霍尔

我从来没有编过故事。我不做判断,我让听众做判断。当我讲到故事的结尾时,如果它有寓意,我会让听众自己去发现。

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

剧院最适合说:“瞧!这些东西。然而,大多数剧作家都用它来表达:“这种道德真理可以从观看这种行为中学到。”

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

你的代表欠你的不仅是他的勤奋,还有他的判断力;若为你的意见牺牲,就是背叛,不是服事你。

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

成就伟大的事业不是靠肌肉、速度或身体的灵巧,而是靠反省、性格的力量和判断。

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

不管他们告诉你什么,在一个复杂的世界里根本就没有绝对的道德。