Sukeys Chinese Quotes & Sayings

He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood. — E. M. Forster

You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him. — Marcel Proust

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle. — G.K. Chesterton

Don't just want fuel. You need it. You can't go — Ryan Holiday

What is the difference between Lomborg's view of humanity and Hitler's? ... If you were to accept Lomborg's way of thinking, then maybe what Hitler did was the right thing. — Rajendra K. Pachauri

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. — Thornton Wilder

Maybe you entertain me." He says with supreme confidence as if he's in control of the situation. "Like a monkey with an attitude and a pair of scissors." -Raffe — Susan Ee

Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important. — William Manchester

I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished. — Lena Horne

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed. — Mary Shelley

Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do. — Drake

Each person has a literature inside them. — Anna Deavere Smith

You were born into fearlessness, but the world may have taught you to fear. — Robin Sharma

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. — Kurt Vonnegut