Han Dynasty Famous Quotes & Sayings

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation. — Dave Eggers

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams. — Hanna Rosin

You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford. — Kevin O'Leary

If a boy doesn't respect his mother...run! — Tracy Yates

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. — Frances Mayes

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed. — Muriel Barbery

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people — Ahmed H. Zewail

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful — Anonymous

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go. — John Steinbeck

If things did not move on and vanish, we should see no beauty anywhere.

If youth had only the heat of movement, it would get parched and withered. But there is ever the hidden tear, which keeps it fresh.

The cry of the world is not only "I have," but also "I give." In the first dawning light of creation, "I have" was wedded to "I give." If this bond of union were to snap, then everything would go to ruin. — Rabindranath Tagore

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you. — Cornel West

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable. — Salman Rushdie

He was revived eight times, and hanged nine.
Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone. Only after the eight hanging did he act like a child being tortured.
For that performance, he was rewarded with what he wanted most in all this world. He was rewarded with death. He died with an erection and his feet were bare. — Kurt Vonnegut

In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn't matter how famous
or how capable you are. — Li Ka-shing

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He's about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There'd be riots in the streets about the people we're killing. And yet because it's Obama, and he's better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it. — Penn Jillette