Quotes by Chinese Authors - Page 7

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
Someone's going to be very pleased to see you.""I don't think the Elector will be as excited as you think.""I wasn't talking about the Elector."My heart jumps at that.
Marie Lu
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu
Fear is your sword
Marie Lu
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Sengcan
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
Lao Tzu
Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.
Zhuangzi
Words are mere bubbles of water but deeds are drops of gold.
Chinese Proverb
When there is fear, there is no trust.
Pearl Zhu
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.
Sun Tzu
Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.
Pearl Zhu
I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by that tiny ripple. "You're very attractive." catches me off guard. But it startles me so much that without thinking I blurt out, "I could say the same about you." I pause. "In case you didn't know."A slow grin spreads across his face. "Oh, trust me. I know.
Marie Lu
Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers ― from the first to the last, including the most fleeting ― part of that unique love, and is each of them merely an expression of it, a variation, a particular version? In the same way that in literature there is just one true masterpiece to which different writers give a particular form (taking the twentieth century alone: Joyce, who explores everything happening inside his character;s head with microscopic precision; Proust, for whom the present is merely a memory of the past; Kafka, who drifts on the margins between dream and reality; the blind Borges, probably the one I relate to best, etc).
Dai Sijie
From that day on I clearly understood that the kingdom of God can never mix with politics. The ultimate, stated aim of Marxist teaching is the complete eradication of all religion. The pure bride of Christ can never be controlled by an atheistic government or led by men who hate God!
Brother Yun
Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.
Pearl Zhu
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.
I-Ching
The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.
Liu Cixin
One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?
Marie Lu
Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.
Mencius
If ignorance is indeed bliss it is a very low grade of the article.
Tehyi Hsieh
I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge."-the girl who played go
Shan Sa
. . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,My youthful desires have been burnt with the years– And tonight in the chilling sunset-windA cicada, singing, weighs on my heart.
Haoran Meng
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius
Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.
Pearl Zhu
Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?
Marie Lu
who wishes to fight must first count the cost
Sun Tzu
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.
Lao Tzu
To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a "one-woman man".
Adeline Yen Mah
Reflection is an underlining theme of Design Thinking.
Pearl Zhu
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnameable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.
Lao Tzu
If the people never fear death,what is the purpose of threatening to kill them?If the people ever fear death,and I were to capture and kill those who are devious,who would dare to be so?If the people must be ever fearful of death,then there will always be an executioner.Now,To kill in place of the executionerIs likeHewing wood in place of the master carpenter;Few indeed will escape cutting their own hands!
Lao Tzu
The face of self-pity was universally understood.
Vann Chow
Innovation is a mindset, and that’s where governance comes in.
Pearl Zhu
If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity.
Confucius
To be creative you must set aside both certainty and doubt.
Pearl Zhu
Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.
Confucius
No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.
Adeline Yen Mah
The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.
Pearl Zhu
who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits
Sun Tzu
It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.
Livia Blackburne
I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.
Meia Geddes
A Chinese proverb: Outside of sky there is sky, outside of people there are people. It is the idea of infinity and also that there will always be someone better than you.
Weike Wang
She had very much looked forward to a word in private with him. But she forgot, as she usually did, the silence that always came between them in these latter years, whenever they found themselves alone.The queer sensation in her chest, however, was all too familiar, that mix of pleasure and pain, never one without the other.She could have done without those feelings. She would have happily gone her entire life never experiencing the pangs of longing and the futility of regret. He made her human—or as human as she was capable of being. And being human was possibly her least favorite aspect of life.
Sherry Thomas
He intrigued her. Powerful men, in her experience, were usually not so full of doubt. Kuni was consumed by the desire to do good for others, but uncertain what "good" might be and whether he was the right man for the job.Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could not longer see himself
Ken Liu
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
Wu Cheng'en
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.
Confucius
Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.
Lao Tzu
You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest,and I smile, and am silent,and even my soul remains quiet:it lives in the other worldwhich no one owns.The peach trees blossom,The water flows.
Li Bai
A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation.
Pearl Zhu
June," Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.
Marie Lu
Agile is more a “direction,” than an “end.” Transforming to Agile culture means the business knows the direction they want to go on.
Pearl Zhu
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
Marie Lu
The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.
Liu Cixin
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
Francis Chan
If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.
Qiu Xiaolong
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]
Sun Tzu
Intuition is often conceived as a kind of inner perception, sometimes regarded as lucidity or understanding.
Pearl Zhu