My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
The lightning that precedes the thunder is a common image of the warnings that come before calamity.
The good society is one in which virtue pays.
In this trifling affair， that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events， the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
我还没有达到我想要的目标，但我已经不在原来的地方了。
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.