Enlai Zhou Quotes & Sayings

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that. — Mary Ellen Mark

We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method. — Zhou Enlai

Occupation is the armor of the soul. — George Stillman Hillard

Mao asks Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, "How do you get a cat to bite a hot pepper?" Zhou says, "You hold him down, pry his jaws open, and shove the pepper into his mouth." Mao says, "No, that's force. We want the cat to bite the pepper of his own free will." Deng says, "You take the pepper, wrap it in a delicious piece of fish, and, before he knows it, the cat has bitten the pepper." Mao says, "No, that's trickery. We want the cat to know he's biting the pepper." Zhou and Deng say, "We give up. How do you make a cat bite a hot pepper?" "It's easy," Mao says. "Stick the pepper up the cat's ass. He'll be glad to bite it. — P. J. O'Rourke

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery. — Alan Watts

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. — Leslie Fiedler

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. — Zhou Enlai

Who knew what time it was when the door to my room opened and three G.I. Joe Wannabes motioned me out. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory. — Zhou Enlai

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. — Thich Nhat Hanh

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it. — Zhou Enlai

The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me. — Ashley D. Wallis

Do you realize how narrowly a fascist takeover in this country was headed off by Watergate? They all said as much quite frankly in all their boring memoirs. It is extremely important to keep track of these things, and remember. — William S. Burroughs

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. — Erik Erikson

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you. — Steve Maraboli

Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics. — Pico Iyer

The night has a thousand eyes. — John Lyly

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. — Zhou Enlai

A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday. — John Updike

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God's Word certainly doesn't give us the luxury of believing that. — R.C. Sproul

You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people ... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples. — Zhou Enlai

Mom went on to tell me, as we sat there, that she really believed your personal life was personal. Secrets, she felt, rarely explained or excused anything in real life, or were even all that interesting. People shared too much, she said, not too little. She thought you should be able to keep your private life private for any reason or for no reason. — Will Schwalbe