Jianlin Xu Quotes & Sayings

But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has knocked on all the doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one may enter and for which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years, and it opens. — Marcel Proust

That evening it was announced that curfew would be postponed until midnight, so that the families of those 'sent for labour' would have time to bring them blankets, a change of underwear and food for the journey. This 'magnanimity' on the part of the Germans was truly touching, and the Jewish police made much of it in an effort to win our confidence. Not until much later did I learn that the thousand men rounded up in the ghetto had been taken straight to the camp at Treblinka, so that the Germans could test the efficiency of the newly built gas chambers and crematorium furnaces. — Wladyslaw Szpilman

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? — Frank Zappa

The friendship that can come to an end, never really began. — Publilius Syrus

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over ... — Sarah Dessen

The doors closed, behind him; he turned,
and saw Laurent.
His stomach dropped, a moment of
confused shock
he'd never expected to
see Laurent here. — C.S. Pacat

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.' — Leo Tolstoy

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. — Lapo Elkann

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box. — Max Walker

You can tell a lot about a person how they view sex ... . — Turcois Ominek