Chinese Proverbs New Year Quotes & Sayings

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy. — Adam Gopnik

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photography is a very important part of my life. — Conrad Hall

The world of books captured my heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done. — Curt Schilling

I almost feel more anxious lately about, 'Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.' — Chris Hemsworth

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up. — Dave Barry

I will always have fears, but I need not be my fears, for I have other places within myself from which to speak and act. — Parker J. Palmer

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. — H.G.Wells

Writing about the spiritual life is like making prints from negatives...Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the open field. Frequently prison makes us think about freedom, hunger helps us to appreciate food, and war gives us words for peace. Not seldom are our vision of the future born out of the sufferings of the present and our hope for others out of our own despair. Only few "happy endings" make us happy but often someone's careful ad honest articulation of the ambiguities, uncertainties, and painful conditions of life gives us new hope. The paradox is indeed that new life is born out of the pains of the old. — Robert Durback

The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it. — Robert McKee