Tsien Tsien Quotes & Sayings

I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge.
-the girl who played go — Shan Sa

You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured. — Vincent De Paul

The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies. — Noam Chomsky

Taking a dump...blackout — Batuhan Ibal

I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle. Let him or her get the center in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good. — Meister Eckhart

Fighting and obtaining wealth were inseparable and interconnected: freed from the need to engage in productive work, the nobility had the leisure to cultivate their martial skills.84 They certainly fought for honor, glory, and the sheer pleasure of battle, but warfare was, "perhaps above all, a source of profit, the nobleman's chief industry."85 It needed no justification, because its necessity seemed self-evident. — Karen Armstrong

I'd yearned for many of the things that come only with a partner. Shared roots, love, an ineffable sense of belonging. — Audrey Faye