Chinese Quotes
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
There’s an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: ‘The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.’
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.
Just because I have rice on my clothes doesn't mean I've been to a wedding. A Chinese man threw up on me.
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge.
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years.
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.
The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers.
On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.