Rassan Ridley Quotes & Sayings

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

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land. — Lynn Culbreath Noel

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. — Takeru Kobayashi

I found my happy place the minute I saw you — Sherrilyn Kenyon

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. — Susan Sontag

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. — Orison Swett Marden

Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower. — Elayne Boosler

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world. — Michael Cunningham

A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi