Chinahighlights Quotes & Sayings

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know. — Ann Druyan

From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States. — Dan Pfeiffer

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done. — Baltasar Gracian

I do not want to be treated like a princess, I just want to be loved. — Pushpa Rana

Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman? — Edgar Rice Burroughs

He's got a heart in his chest.
I see it when I look him in the eyes. I see the agony he feels. He's tortured, twisted, all tied up in knots. He's busy beating himself up inside. But most people don't see that, because they don't look at him. They turn away from the surface, terrified, because what he shows the world can be downright fucking scary. But if they just took a second to really see him, they'd know what I know.
They'd believe what I believe.
And what I believe is this man is far from being a monster. — J.M. Darhower

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. — Herbert Read

This is my command- be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. — Anonymous

Everyday is a holiday with me. — Mariah Carey

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix. — M.F.K. Fisher

A girlfriend? No thanks, I'd rather play nintendo and build my lego set! — Zac Hanson

Often beauty is disguised
by appearance just as music can be
by sound, the dreaming wish by the waking
wish until there's this terrible stress
because a thing must finally reveal itself,
break itself. Leaning shadow, cinder
heart, shouts. In Gorky's The Unattainable,
the line begins to free itself from any
utility of contour and becomes a trajectory.
One day, Gorky hung himself from a beam
but left us in charge of those ravishments.
Hello, interior of the sun. Usually alone
on Sundays, she won't get off until late,
the man steams rice because it's cheap
and easy and feels in its austerity poetic
like candles during a power outage
or trying on overcoats all afternoon,
buying none. — Dean Young