Jianhua Zhu Quotes & Sayings

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. — Thomas Reid

The more one is able to leave one's cultural home, the more easily is one able to judge it, and the whole world as well, with the spiritual detachment and generosity necessary for true vision. The more easily, too, does one assess oneself and alien cultures with the same combination of intimacy and distance. — Edward W. Said

Can we just call them storm spirits?" Leo asked. "Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks. — Rick Riordan

Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy. — Mata Amritanandamayi

Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time. — Tessa Dare

Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class. — Billy Boyd

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens. — Javier Marias

The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted. — Adolf Hitler

There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro — Patrick W. Galbraith