Classic Asian Quotes & Sayings

Time and again, you wound me and walk away!" Her — Renee Ahdieh

I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealand's economic performance. — David Cunliffe

The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.
The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.
And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt like I was. — Dan Pearce

Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than a nominal connection to the past. It is absurd to speak, as does the academic left, of classic Western texts dominating and silencing everyone but a ruling elite or white males. The vast majority of white students do not know the intellectual tradition that is allegedly theirs any better than black or brown ones do. They have not read its books, and when they do read them, they may respond well, but they will not respond in the way that the academic left supposes. For there is only one 'hegemonic discourse' in the lives of American undergraduates, and that is the mass media. Most high schools can't begin to compete against a torrent of imagery and sound that makes every moment but the present seem quaint, bloodless, or dead. — David Denby

As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with — Colleen Hoover

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. — Jorge Luis Borges

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. — Andy Rooney