Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 2

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math.
Jamie Ford
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Lao Tzu
Once in a while, he worries, but about what? Like the scattered clouds that drift over farmland in the afternoon, that sort of anxiety is what, ultimately?
Tang Fei
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Lisa See
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
I.M. Pei
The past has no power to stop youfrom being present now.Only your grievance aboutthe past can do that.What is grievance?The baggage of oldthought and emotion.
Lao Tzu
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.
Xinran
Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.
Pearl Zhu
I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me
Marie Lu
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
An Wang
Already, I'm starting to forget the face of the man I killed.
Marie Lu
Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.
Lin Yutang
Enzo inherited a throne. Giulietta relied on her royal blood. Queen Maeve rules Beldain because she was born to it. But true rulers are not born. We are made.
Marie Lu
Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.
Pearl Zhu
Digital is the age of empathy.
Pearl Zhu
All our finite decisions are taken in a very transient emotional stage.
Pearl Zhu
Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.
Marie Lu
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”(Analects 4.16)
Confucius
To lead people, you must follow behind.
Lao Tzu
Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?
Zhuangzi
The ancients said that for persons who cultivated body and mind, and who are virtuous and honorable, death is an experience of liberation, a long-awaited rest from a lifetime of labors. Death helps the unscrupulous person to put an end to the misery of desire. Death, then, for everyone is a kind of homecoming. That is why the ancient sages speak of a dying person as a person who is 'going home.
Liezi
To make change sustain, the important thing is “end-to-end” performance.
Pearl Zhu
Where’s the trail to Cold Mountain?Cold Mountain? There’s no clear way.Ice, in summer, is still frozen.Bright sun shines through thick fog.You won’t get there following me.Your heart and mine are not the same.If your heart was like mine,You’d have made it, and be there!
Han-shan
Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.
Pearl Zhu
The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.
Mencius
Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola.
Alexa Chung
Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are.Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.
Lao Tzu
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.
Confucius
Some have said I should demand that the surviving members of Unit 731 be brought to justice. But what does that mean? I am no longer a child. I do not want to see trials, parades, spectacles. The law does not give you real justice.
Ken Liu
In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.
Duo Duo
Hi, I'm Day. Hi, I'm June.
Marie Lu
At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.
Marie Lu
Second Corinthians speaks concerning the ministry, which is constituted with, and produced and formed by, the experiences of the riches of Christ through sufferings, consuming pressures, and the killing work of the cross. The ministry is not merely a matter of gift. A person may be able to speak fluently and eloquently and give many good illustrations and proverbs, but this is just a gift. What the church, the Body, needs today is the ministry.
Witness Lee
War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.
Feng Nong
After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.
Marie Lu
...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.
Mao Zedong
I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.
Marie Lu
I've never thought of describing her beauty as delicate, because delicate just isn't a word that fits June... but here, now that she's sick, I realize just how fragile she can be.
Marie Lu
Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.
Jamie Ford
If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Pearl Zhu
Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.
Chai Jing
Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.
Liu Cixin
Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.
Pearl Zhu
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius
We ate away, reminiscing about our victories over the enemies from different streets and villages and competing with each other in casting curses. A few golden butterflies and dragonflies were fluttering around us. The afternoon air was warm and clean, and the town below us seemed like a green harbor full of white sails.
Ha Jin
Creative expansion cannot happen without vision.
Pearl Zhu
The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.
Zhuangzi
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Confucius
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
The success of strategy management undoubtedly lies in the “timely execution.
Pearl Zhu
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Lao Tzu
A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can’t stay still.
Pearl Zhu
Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.
Marie Lu
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
Lao Tzu
(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.
Lao Tzu
Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.
Marie Lu
For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.
Pearl Zhu
Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven?
Sherry Thomas
We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.
Sun Tzu