Jiajia Ding Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control. — Abhijit Naskar

Mix Kindness with Authority; and rule more by Discretion than Rigor. — Various

When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me ... people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows. — Barney Hoskyns

In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized. — Suzanne Collins

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up. — Debra Wilson

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness — Stephen Stills

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality. — Tobin Wilson

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit. — Leah Raeder

Do I trust that where I am in life today - no matter how far it is from where I think I should be - can never limit God's ability to accomplish his will in my life? — Dave Harvey

Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process. — Tariq Ramadan

Book
beautiful
book,
miniscule forest,
leaf
after leaf
your paper smells
of the elements ... — Pablo Neruda

Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world. — Mark Lawrence

Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The Colonel grunted. "In my experience, those things don't have to try to scare the shit out of anyone. If she wanted you dead or broken, you would be. Vampires have - idiomatic speech patterns. You may have simply misunderstood her." "She called me a cold cut. — Peter Watts