Laowai Chinese Quotes & Sayings

But I would say to my fellows, once for all, As long as possible live free and uncommitted. — Henry David Thoreau

Welcome Beauty, banish fear. — Francesca Lia Block

Get my kush in California, Get my dro from Arizona — Lil' Wayne

No girl can forget the day she lost her virginity, or the circumstance that led to it. — Augustine Sam

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science ... no, I am not as old as that. — Christopher Kelk Ingold

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it. — Charles Dickens

Everyone must be a missionary, everyone can hear that call of Jesus and go forth and proclaim the Kingdom! — Pope Francis

As you spend time with the King of kings and the Lord of lords, His attitude becomes your attitude. — Andrew Wommack

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house. — Brett Ratner

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. — Donella Meadows

When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models. — Matthew Polly

You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first. — Inge Druckrey

[ ... ] The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for external markers of our accomplishments. — Matthew Polly

The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them — Cassandra Clare

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. — Lynn Abbey

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church? — Arthur Judson

Peace is not the absence of agony
But the presence of joy of harmony — Debasish Mridha