Forbidden City Beijing Quotes & Sayings

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit. — Charles Spurgeon

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau

Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction. — Richard Dawkins

I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory. — Bill Richardson

So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant. — Elon Musk

You can't discipline the whole country."
"Still," Moss said dreamily, "that's what must be done before they can ever accomplish anything. — Paul Bowles

To whatever extent your mind is aligned with love, you will receive divine compensation for any lack in your material existence. From spiritual substance will come material manifestation. This is not just a theory; it is a fact. It is a law by which the universe operates. I call it the Law of Divine Compensation. — Marianne Williamson

God tends to fight not on the side of the oppressed but on the side of the oppressor because the later has bigger battalions. — Chukwuemeka Ike

I adapted an antiquated style and modernized it to something that was efficient. I didn't know anyone else in the world would be able to use it and I never imagined it would revolutionize the event. — Dick Fosbury

Mind the hour, mind the date, and find that path which does not run straight. — Alexandra Bracken

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. — Stephen Chbosky

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people. — Jean Stapleton

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. — J. A. Jance

I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day. — Patrick Rothfuss

Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance. — Gabrielle Roth