Chinese Quotes
The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.
Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.
Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.
I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.
I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.
Time meant nothing. She loved him in an instant.She would love him forever.
The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy
What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?
He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.
And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.
I knew that I was the least-loved child because I was a girl and because my mother had died giving birth to me.
Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys.
Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji
The cycle of birth, life and death is all part of nature but we can choose to live through the cycle with a hand on the Wheel of Destiny.
Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.
And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.
There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.
I'm online, therefore I am.
Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.
Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing
Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.
the human body is a miniature version of the universe - the eyes and ears are the sun and moon, breath is air, blood is rain.
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.
One conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study in a public school.
