Chao Quotes & Sayings

Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."
"Order is organic, it can't just be ordered up."
"The more complexity, the more unpredictability and therefore the more uncontrollability. You cannot control what you cannot predict. — Lawrence Samuels

This is the same Lizzie Chao who I went to high school with," Hart said. "I believe so," Isabel said. "She's married," Hart said. "She's separated," Isabel said. "Which means she's married with an option to trade up," Catherine said. — John Scalzi

I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day. — William Fitzsimmons

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration. — Elaine Chao

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. — Daniel Dennett

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. — Tony Hsieh

I have the same problems that everybody else does. — Sylvia Browne

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports, — Elaine Chao

Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion, — Elaine Chao

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between? — Buwei Yang Chao

I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things. — Buwei Yang Chao

A bottomless abyss exists in every inch — Liu Cixin

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program. — Elaine Chao

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison. — Kay Redfield Jamison

The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives. — J.G. Ballard

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders. — Stephen Covey

You've touched yourself."
"It's not the same," I informed him irritably.
His head came up, he looked at me and he whispered, "No, baby, it's not. — Kristen Ashley

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost. — Samuel Chadwick

It might come as a surprise, but the Bible also addresses the importance of corporate responsibility. The Old Testament "law of gleaning" speaks loud and clear about this. Leviticus 19: 9-10 (NIV) summarizes this important social justice law which is also restated in Deuteronomy 24: "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God." This law from God Himself, commanded landowners, business owners in our language today, to leave some of their potential profits for immigrants and the poor. — Robert Chao Romero

A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do. — Buwei Yang Chao

It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control. — Elaine Chao

My mother folded each pair of trousers over her arm, pulling the legs out so that the creases lay perfectly. She handles clothes meticulously. S did Nai-nai. But there was a difference in attitude. To my grandmother, clothes held a kind of magic--they could change your destiny one way or the other. To my mother, they were servile, like farm animals in China. Treat them well and they'll perform their function. — Patricia Chao

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. — Peter Diamandis

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules, — Elaine Chao

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them. — Buwei Yang Chao

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known, — Elaine Chao

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship, — Elaine Chao