Lotus Tower Quotes & Sayings

The Chinese construction of South Asia's tallest edifice, the Lotus (a Lotus Sutra in Buddhism) Tower, both points to Beijing's Peaceful Rise and unsettles some onlookers. For the nervous India and the United States, the cleverly designed and highly sophisticated rising communications tower is more than a Buddhist symbol of Peaceful Rise. — Patrick Mendis

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

People always get used to beauty — John Green

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. — Frantz Fanon

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken. — Ernest Gaines

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish. — Richard Branson

I would beat you, but Jesus has already exposed your lies. — Trevor Noah

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. — Carter Burwell

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country. — Ai Weiwei

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. — Clint Eastwood

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out. — Maria Semple