Jingqianshu Quotes & Sayings

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. — George Michael

Hi-Tek is on three or four songs on the new record. — Talib Kweli

Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.
It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge. — Toba Beta

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. — David Brooks

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. — Jonathan Swift

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues. — Walter Savage Landor

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion. — Brian Ferneyhough

Opinions aren't facts. Stop worrying about what people think of you. — Anonymous

I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal. — Diane Ackerman

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it
which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. — Mark Twain

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages. — Christopher Love

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism. — Dino Buzzati

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. — Jimenez Lai