Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 30

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.
Sun Tzu
There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is free from perplexity being brave he is free from fear.
Confucius
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
Lisa See
There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
Sherry Thomas
When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'.
Sun Tzu
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
In this summer heat, I must remember that the realest things are the closest and farthest away, like the warmth found in winter: the heat hidden in the folds of one's coat, a lost floating breath, a kiss across the distance of zero degrees.
Meia Geddes
Few people ever kill for the right reasons.
Marie Lu
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.
Ai Weiwei
Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.
Chuang-tzu
Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.
Anna Chennault
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
Pearl Zhu
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
Qiu Xiaolong
I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.
Shan Sa
If heaven made him earth can find some use for him.
Chinese Proverb
Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.
Marie Lu
Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.
Pearl Zhu
Running IT with boldness doesn’t mean IT goes rogue, it means IT becomes more intelligent,
Pearl Zhu
The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite; this is how it has always been.
Luo Guanzhong
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu
An intelligent organization is not about the “cleverness” of one analytics team but the insightful nature of the entire business.
Pearl Zhu
Be where your enemy is not.
Sun Tzu
The wall sawyer did not ask the little queen what she did. This was because in the little queen’s kingdom, people only volunteered their doings if they wanted to, and they never asked others their doings. It was considered impolite. Asking what one did was like asking who they were, and that was too simple a question for a very complex answer.
Meia Geddes
Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.
Pearl Zhu
The central thought of the Scriptures is that God intends to work Himself in Christ through the Spirit into us, that God and we, we and God, might be really one in life, in nature, and in the Spirit. To show this God uses several figures or symbols in the Bible.
Witness Lee
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.
Marie Lu
So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.
Zhuangzi
The experiences mentioned in this book are experiences in the Holy of Holies. This book gives a portrait of a person who is in the Holy of Holies. Paul and his co-workers were such persons. They had entered into the good land and were living in the spirit, experiencing Christ all the time. They were deep, even the deepest, in the experience of Christ.
Witness Lee
You seem to think you’re insignificant, but the truth is you’re so intelligent, beautiful, kind and decent, adorable. I can’t be the first person to have fallen in love with you, and I won’t be the last. But I do believe I will love you the most.
Ai Mi
Being extra nice to someone can be a form of manipulation--kindness is an exercise of power in its own right.
Wang Anyi
In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.
Shan Sa
If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal.
Lao Tzu
I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.
Marie Lu
For nurturing the mind, there’s nothing like paring your desires away to a very few. If you have few desires, there may still be some capricious whims in your mind, but they’ll be few. If you have many desires, there may be some enduring principles in your mind, but they’ll be few indeed.
Mencius
The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.
Confucius
In my life, no three miles have been flat and no three days have had sun. I've been brave in the past, but now I'm beyond devastated. My grief is like dense clouds that cannot be dispersed. I can't think beyond the blackness of my clothes and heart.
Lisa See
I don't pay much attention to the distinction between fantasy and science fiction–or between “genre” and “mainstream” for that matter. For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors-which is the logic of narratives in general–over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.We spend our entire lives trying to tell stories about ourselves–they’re the essence of memory. It is how we make living in this unfeeling accidental universe tolerable. That we call such a tendency “the narrative fallacy” doesn’t mean it doesn’t also touch upon some aspect of the truth.Some stories simply literalize their metaphors a bit more explicitly.
Ken Liu