Emperice Quotes & Sayings

The Facebook of China, however, is Renren, launched in 2005. (The Google of China is Baidu, and the Twitter of China is Sina Weibo.) — Clay Shirky

Scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything. — Kevin J. Anderson

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. — Paul Watson

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it. — Jack Welch

Day after day, Mersault let himself sink into his life as if he were sliding into water. And just as the swimmer advances by the complicity of his arms and the water which bears him up, helps him on, it was enough to make a few essential gestures - to rest one hand on a tree trunk, to take a run on the beach - in order to keep himself intact and conscious. — Albert Camus

Are you familiar with the word inspiration? The meaning of it? Where it comes from?...In the Dark Ages no understood the things that made some people special. Every soul in that dark, difficult time faced the same limitations, every soul except a precious few who saw things differently, the poets, inventors, artists, stone masons. Regular folks didn't understand how a person could wake up one day and see the world differently. They thought it was a gift from God. Thus the word "inspiration." It means breathed upon...breathed upon by God himself. — John Hart

Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun ... Til that myn herte dye ... That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake! — Geoffrey Chaucer

Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means something you don't like the first few times you eat it ... — Lemony Snicket

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has engendered, and the extraordinarily effective teleonomic performances of living beings from bacteria to man, one may well find oneself beginning to doubt again whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at random. [Nevertheless,] a detailed review of the accumulated modern evidence [shows] that this conception alone is compatible with the facts. — Jacques Monod

Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round. — Vladimir Nabokov

The life of music is bigger than all of us. — Cindy Blackman

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. — Barack Obama

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Our faith is watered and we flourish when we reach out to others in love. We think good times and comfort will make us happy. But history shows that the people who are filled with the most joy and contentment are those who reach out to others-despite tough times — Laurie Ostby Kehler

Building a rainy-day fund during good times may not be politically popular, but it can pay off during the bad times. — Ben Bernanke

I will live to the level of my own expectations, not others — Sara Wales