Mintao Liu Quotes & Sayings

Silence. Silence. Why is it always about silence? I wish both of us could tell the world and be free from the chains we drag around. — Jessica Sorensen

I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown. — Simon Toyne

A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention. — Jennifer Morrison

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. — William Shakespeare

Relax when you need to, but be tense when you need to. The point is to never mix up the two. — Koushun Takami

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We can agree that all humans are born in complete wonder, and that they don't have to prove or perform in order to earn acceptance or love. We can reject the notion of "good, better and best" people. If we don't, we're creating conditions that will see the rise of another Hitler. Who dares decide who is "better" than others? — Alyson Schafer

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. — Sigmund Freud

When something is troubling me, people know about it. — Rachael Leigh Cook

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. — Enid Blyton

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often. — Ron Atkinson

Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her. — Sarah Addison Allen

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company's in trouble, and we have to help them. We're in reserve, so we have to go. And if we're shelled, we're shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it. — David Kenyon Webster

When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that the only complete solution to my problem was suicide. I never brought it off. I was afraid. A lifetime of never making positive decisions, accepting instead the lesser of the evils presented to me, had atrophied my will. It was not so much that I longed for death as that I didn't long for life. Emptiness, though, was not a sufficiently definite feeling to lead to a violent act. Instead of sitting in my room and balancing the relative convenience of various ways of ending it all, I ought to have been busy trying to summon up a reasonable amount of despair. Hopelessness was thinly spread like drizzle over my whole outlook. But, in an emergency, I could not find a puddle of despondency deep enough to drown in. — Quentin Crisp