Shaoshan Quotes & Sayings

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me! — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

You can beat her, but don't mistreat her. Oh, don't believe that woman please. — Elton John

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett

Keith much preferred cats. A cat wouldn't go mad at a man traversing a wall in the dead of night; it would shrug and lick its arse — Simon Dunn

He was not a god. He was my dad.'
'You can be both,' she said. 'It happens. — Neil Gaiman

Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. — Leigh Bardugo

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home. — Mao Zedong

Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass. — Milan Kundera

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. — E. M. Forster

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. — Henry Louis Gates

True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. — Raymond Queneau

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

The predators may respond to the defensive reprisals of their prey as if they were the ones under attack, and experience a moralized wrath and a thirst for revenge. Thanks to the Moralization Gap, they will minimize their own first strike as necessary and trivial while magnifying the reprisal as unprovoked and devastating. Each side will count the wrongs differently - the perpetrator tallying an even number of strikes and the victim an odd number - and the difference in arithmetic can stoke a spiral of revenge, — Steven Pinker

Neat little boys in neat little shirts, so earnest and wholesome, but hidden underneath their faces were old hags, skin pitted with acid. — Mariam Petrosyan

I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost. — Paula Hawkins

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce