Month In Chinese Quotes & Sayings

How can it be expressed in anything but itself? — E. M. Forster

The more I took note of how my body and brain clicked along through the day, the more I realized that I spent a considerable amount of time banging around with a brain full of chatter; a rush of things to do, bills to pay, telephone calls, text messages, e-mails, worrying about my job or my looks, my boobs or my ass; I rushed from thing to thing, multitasking, triple-timing, hoping to cover all the bases, avoiding anything that might disrupt the schedule or routine. At times, I was so caught up in the tempo and pattern, the predictable tap, tap, tap of each day, that there was no time to notice the neighbors had moved out, the wind was sneaking in from the north, the sun was shifting on its axis, and tonight the moon would look like the milky residue floating inside an enormous cereal bowl. I wondered when I had become a person who noticed so little. — Dee Williams

Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. — Mao Tse-tung

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it. — Frances Hesselbein

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. — Yeardley Smith

as we Tibetans lived quite happily for many centuries behind our wall of mountains - the — Dalai Lama XIV

I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system. — Ozzie Guillen

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all. — Mao Zedong

what isn't honest does come t' harm. I — George Eliot

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose. — Margaret Cho

There was once an abbot who had spent thirty-nine years alone in the temple with cats as his only companions. As someone who believed that faith and willpower could conquer any difficulty, the abbot began training newborn kittens, trying to turn the impossible into the possible. First he put the rattan hoop on the ground for the kittens to crawl through. Then he slowly raised the hoop little by little, day after day, month after month, and year after year. Years went by and the hoop was gradually raised until he finally succeeded in getting the cats to jump through the hoop. An unusual phenomenon occurred. When the kittens saw the older cats jump, they believed they could do it too and so, without much effort, they learned to jump easily through the hoop as well. — You Jin

Because survival is insufficient. — Emily St. John Mandel