Two Child Policy Quotes & Sayings

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it. — Joe Perry

He'd set his mouth in a feral line that could have tipped toward kindness or to cruelty in a second. — Cate Rowan

I'm not interested in business for business's sake. — Dasha Zhukova

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people. — Alan Furst

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible. — Mark Twain

All my life I'd heard people
tell their black boys and
black girls to "be twice as
good," which is to say
"accept half as much. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. — David Hume

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice."
Death sighed. No, he said ... there's just me. — Terry Pratchett

So if you're losing the debate, you change the conversation. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The water was supposed to look like molten lava, although it actually looked far more like blood (for which reason every kid in town called the volcano Mount Hemorrhoid). — Stuart Gibbs

Years later,
I still wanted to give up
friends, love, starry skies,
for a house where no one
was home, no one coming back,
and all I could drink — Raymond Carver

Suicide by media can take a lifetime. — Mark Ebner

You can't turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something. — Peter Watts

One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage. — Elizabeth George

Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation. — Xiaolu Guo