Maytime China Quotes & Sayings

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion. — Soren Kierkegaard

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym. — Rachel Nichols

Whatever God has done for other men, He can do for me. — Smith Wigglesworth

You deal with the bitch, I'll deal with the ditch. — Karen Rose

A writer's job is to tell the truth. His standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make an absolute truth.6 — Ernest Hemingway,

Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune. — T-Pain

Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to the question whether or not we shall be struck down by a dread disease: "it's all a matter of luck." It is important to keep this in mind, for people almost always forget it, with consequences in human intolerance and unnecessary suffering that are incalculable. — John Hospers

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time. — Roland Joffe

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers. — A.J. Liebling

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. — Miranda Otto

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

A few modern philosophers ... assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. ... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. — Carol S. Dweck

Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses. — Meg Jay

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader. — Jon Stewart