Wang Ming Dao Quotes & Sayings

For all practical purposes I left home when I was 7. — Jean Stafford

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it. — Kyle Shewfelt

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line. — Dennis Lehane

All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them. — Oswald Chambers

Yesterday the sea was as smooth as a mirror; it is smooth as a mirror today. The island is having an Indian summer. Such a mild, warm Indian summer! Yet there is no sun. It is years since I knew such peace, perhaps twenty or thirty years; or perhaps it was in a previous life. Whenever it was, I must surely have tasted before now this peace that I feel as I walk around in ecstasies, humming to myself, caring for every stone and every straw, and sensing that they care for me once more. We are friends. As I follow the overgrown path through the forest, my heart trembles with an unearthly joy. — Knut Hamsun

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi

How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? — G.K. Chesterton

While Julia's down in Long Branch looking after Molly, you're supposed to — John Jakes

I laughed at his honesty. I like people who say what they are thinking. No need to guess and try strain your nonexistent psychic abilities. — Mary Whitten

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic. — Michel Faber