Macau Country Quotes & Sayings

I've always thought surfing is a reflection of who you are. — Kelly Slater

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. — Hermann Hesse

Girls! Girls! Put some pep into your work. How would you act, for instance, if I told you that all for your salaries were to be raised?

I would drop dead. — Edna Wallace

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. — Mark Pryor

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure? — Confucius

I had come to expect that Chinese friends would make financial decisions that I found uncomfortably risky: launching businesses with their savings, moving across the country without the assurance of a job. One explanation, which Weber and Hsee call "the cushion hypothesis," is that traditionally large Chinese family networks afford people confidence that they can turn to others for help if their risk-taking does not succeed. Another theory is more specific to the boom years. "The economic reforms undertaken by Deng Xiaoping were a gamble in themselves," Ricardo Siu, a business professor at the University of Macau, told me. "So people got the idea that taking a risk is not just okay; it has utility." For those who have come from poverty to the middle class, he added, "the thinking may be, If I lose half my money, well, I've lived through that. I won't be poor again. And in several years I can earn it back. But if I win? I'm a millionaire! — Evan Osnos

But you and I - " he brushes the collar of the gown aside - "are students of knowledge. We believe in careful practice to attain perfection. — Rae Carson

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality. — Alexander Smith

Why hyphenate, why parenthesize, unless absolutely necessary? — Margaret Atwood

Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint. — Charles Duhigg

From early on ... we really looked at the Internet as a whole new way to provide storytelling and entertainment. — Benny Fine

People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now ... I'm asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way. — Billy Graham

If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective. — Amy Dickinson

Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion. — Erich Fromm

We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't. — Alex Gaskarth