Hundun Chinese Quotes & Sayings

Must all your sources of amusement involve pushing your nose into business that is not your own?" "Mostly, or it wouldn't be half as fun." "In — K.M. Shea

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature. — Denise Mina

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, ... I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport ... without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one. — Louis XIV

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing. — Joshuah Bearman

Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar. — Jeffrey Eugenides

A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably — Walter Isaacson

And at that point the realization suddenly burned me like a searing flame: For each person there was an "office," but for nobody was there one that he was permitted to choose for himself, to define, and to fill according to his own wishes. It was wrong to desire new gods, it was totally wrong to try and give the world anything! There was no duty for enlightened people, none, none, except this: to seek themselves, to become certain of themselves, to grope forward along their own path, wherever it might lead. - I — Hermann Hesse

Saw life steadily and saw it whole. — Matthew Arnold

Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and go, that they're going to have to take care of themselves and their kids. They're ready for the opportunity to step up. By the last year or two in high school, many boys have already steeled themselves for failure. They've checked out intellectually, mentally, and emotionally. — Peg Tyre

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience. — Jonathan Groff