Chinas Quotes & Sayings

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves. — Claire Messud

For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy. — John Scalzi

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts. — Roger L'Estrange

A visionary is someone who sees what is possible, who sees the potential. A missionary is someone who carries out that work. — Mario Chinas

His power over her was limited, because she didn't love him. — Ann Brashares

Smile and joke, even when you don't feel like it.
ESPECIALLY when you don't feel like it. — Rick Riordan

And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world. — Barack Obama

As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the place it must be to him from the outside. — Jade Chang

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional. — Gail Collins

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion — Jane Austen

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential. — Andre Braugher