Sinosphere Quotes & Sayings

I know that God loves us. He allows us to exercise our moral agency even when we misuse it. He permits us to make our own decisions. Christ cannot help us if we do not trust Him; He cannot teach us if we do not serve Him. He will not force us to do what's right, but He will show us the way only when we decide to serve Him. Certainly, for us to serve in His kingdom, Christ requires that we experience a change of thought and attitude. — Thomas S. Monson

The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary. — Howard Schultz

Whenever I'm tempted to hug a dwarf, that's usually a sign I need to move along. — Rick Riordan

Brady's a star up there," he says, "in some distant place where he doesn't hurt. — Suzanne Young

Monastic people have long known--and I've experienced it in a small way myself--that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives. — Kathleen Norris

let us start by picturing the Japan archipelago lying in the sea by the Chinese mainland. If its proximity allowed it to become part of the Sinosphere and acquire a written culture, its distance benefited the development of indigenous writing. The Dover Strait, separating England and France, is only 34 kilometers (21 miles) wide. A fine swimmer can swim across it. In contrast, the shortest distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is five or six times greater, and between Japan and the Chinese mainland, twenty-five times greater. The current, moreover, is deadly. . . . Japan's distance from China gave it political and cultural freedom and made possible the flowering of its own writing. — Minae Mizumura

Find optimism in the inevitable — Rem Koolhaas

The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume. — Raymond Chandler

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. — Robert Mapplethorpe

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides. — Archimedes

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness. — Sydney J. Harris

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. — Robert Wilson

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned ... after taxes. — Randy Thurman

I don't do any amount of stunts. — Seann William Scott

If only St. Valentine was around to see his memory celebrated through the mindless marketing of whipping cream and lingerie. — Dov Davidoff