Sinologist Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

There's just so much to live for. — Alex George

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation. — Samuel Johnson

Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. It may be true that, to a sensitive observer, there was some thing exquisitely painful in it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

We're all whores, sooner or later. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit. — Francis Chan

Abomination . . ." The word escaped him in a slow breath. "And more besides," I agreed. "Now forgive me." Father Gomst found his wits at last, but still he held back. "What do you want with me, Lucifer?" A fair question. "I want to win," I said. He — Mark Lawrence

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days. — John Berendt

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are. — Yusuf Islam

I won the only duel I ever lost. — Patrick Rothfuss

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance. — Will Smith

Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future, but that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing those technologies right away. Ergo we do not know what we will know. — Nicholas Nassim Taleb

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The universe can take quite a while to deliver. — Desmond Tutu

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN — Benjamin Franklin

Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself - making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears, — Pema Chodron