Fat Lne Quotes & Sayings

From the late 1830s to the Second World War, China was bullied and humiliated on a vast scale. And it was more shocking for the Chinese because they had lived with the illusion of power and self-sufficiency for much longer than the Ottomans. 'Our country's civilization,' Liang Qichao pointed out in 1902, 'is the oldest in the world. Three thousand years ago, Europeans were living like beasts in the field, while our civilization, its characteristics pronounced, was already equivalent to theirs of the middle ages.
This wasn't just some cultural defensiveness. China could trace its culture back 4,000 years, and political unity to the third century BC. — Pankaj Mishra

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. — Joseph Epstein

DEPARTURE
The horizon slopes away
The days are longer
Trip
A heart hops in a cage
A bird sings
It is going to die
Another door is going to open
At the end of the corridor
Where a star
Begins to shine
A dark-haired woman
The lantern of the departing train
("Departure") — Pierre Reverdy

There was freedom of speech in this era," James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, "so long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope. — James A. Oliver

Bring solutions, results and change to people — Sunday Adelaja

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child — Sunday Adelaja

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen. — Sidney Sheldon

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time. — T.L. Rese

The business of business is people. — Herb Kelleher