Ivan Chinese Quotes & Sayings

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did. — Jacob Latimore

The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with democracy do not dream about the Chinese model or any other form of authoritarian rule. They do not dream about government that controls Internet and puts in prison those daring to disagree. — Ivan Krastev

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea ... The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous. — Charlotte Bronte

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. — Mark Gatiss

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling. — Niki Taylor

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead. — Andrew Carnegie

I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat. — Lasse Hallstrom