Chinary Ung Quotes & Sayings

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world. — Alexandra Stoddard

To many fame comes too late. — Luis De Camoes

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion! — Archie Panjabi

I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost? — Cornelia Funke

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. — Umberto Eco

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government — Thomas Paine

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone. — Matthew Henry

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. — Shel Silverstein

The river, the river itself, leaves marks but bears none. It is only water flowing in a path that other water has worn. — Wendell Berry

Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree? — Dogen

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive. — Kathy Acker