Hsiu Ting Quotes & Sayings

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up. — Leonard Mlodinow

We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing. — Bill Crow

Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation. (pg. 152) — Ellen F. Davis

We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward

When you're alone, you harbour one hundred percent all of the good things. But this also means that you harbour all the bad things. I learnt my own goals slowed down when I was with others, but having shared the good things, sharing the pain, having that friendship excelled what I alone couldn't do. It doesn't need to be logical, friendships are a part of life, and when is that logical? Life doesn't make sense, but you don't have to live it alone. — Michael Rogers

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away. — Theodore Bikel

Neither of us seemed able to be close to
anyone. Not even each other. Closeness
meant the one you loved the most would
cause you the most damage. How did you
unlearn that? It was woven deep between
every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it
out. — Lisa Kleypas

The media made the masses to find not-so-skinny women appear not-so-beautiful ... in the eyes of the remote holder. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal. — Charles Bukowski

The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how they can be greater advocates for victims. As a people, a nation and a society, we all have a part to play in curbing this issue. — Michelle Alexander

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all. — C.S. Lewis

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. — Lyle Lovett

the mind is a tyrant — Deb Caletti

Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: 'Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"' That science does not give an answer to this is indisputable. The only question that remains is the sense in which science gives 'no' answer, and whether or not science might yet be of use to the one who puts the question correctly. — Max Weber

The room grew suddenly several degrees darker, for the wind seemed to be driving waves of darkness across the earth. No one attempted to eat for a time, but sat looking out at the garden, with their forks in the air. The flashes now came frequently, lighting up faces as if they were going to be photographed, surprising them in tense and unnatural expressions. — Virginia Woolf