Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

  • -- Frank Crane 弗兰克·克兰

我们决定的大多数事情并不是我们所知道的最好的。我们说“是”,仅仅是因为我们被逼到了一个角落,必须说些什么。

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So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

所以我个人的怀疑是,律师已经停止了起诉,因为她辩护的一部分是质疑合法性,这将把他的建议再次带入公共领域,他说战争是合法的方式有些可疑。

I have never been able to decide whether, in mountain exploration, it is the prospect of tackling an unsolved problem, or the performance of the task itself, or the retrospective enjoyment of successful effort, which affords the greatest amount of pleasure.

在山区探险中,我一直无法决定是解决一个尚未解决的问题的前景,还是任务本身的执行,还是对成功努力的回顾享受,才给我带来最大的乐趣。

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

有两种幸福的方式:我们必须要么减少我们的欲望,要么增加我们的手段——任何一种都可以——结果都是一样的,这是由每个人自己决定的,做那些碰巧更容易的事情。

Art is a personal act of courage something one human does that creates change in another.

艺术是一种个人勇气的行为,一个人所做的事会给另一个人带来改变。

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

我写的歌都是别人从未写过的。

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

我被称为很多东西,但从来没有一个知识分子。