Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Quotes & Sayings

The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning. — Lee Child

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as oportunity. — Adeline Yen Mah

I thought I would teach my students a thing or two from the text books once I got a job in school but to my surprise my students teach me things about life and myself every single day. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Day after day, anxiety spun its web around my thoughts and spread to all corners of my heart. — Adeline Yen Mah

I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it. — Roz Chast

When I feel the beauty in words,
I am sensing the logic of heart. — Toba Beta

Create your own destiny! — Adeline Yen Mah

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else. — Beck

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions. — Rosamund Pike

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. — Thomas A. Edison

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls ... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe. — Michelle Obama

So please, just let me be egocentric and ask you to stay. — Ika Natassa

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer. — Pat Brown

Life isn't so much that we are seeking God (whether earnestly, sporadically, desperately, or not at all), but rather that God is already here with a steady lamp in the dark, searching for us. Life isn't how we stumble about trying to do no harm while we make occasional, feeble lurches at loving one another. Life is what God is doing within us and among us, nonstop-and it's not a death march, it's a dance. Life is about hearing this music and getting in step. — Marilyn Lacey

A pity it is evening, yet
I do love the water of this spring
seeing how clear it is, how clean;
rays of sunset gleam on it,
lighting up its ripples, making it
one with those who travel
the roads; I turn and face
the moon; sing it a song, then
listen to the sound of the wind
amongst the pines. — Li Bai

Laurene Powell, said bluntly, "If you're ever going to do a book on Steve, you'd better do it now." He had just taken a second — Walter Isaacson

Ted, I swear to God, quothe he. — George Saunders