Xianxing Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is a social animal and everyone is socially relevant..
Everyone is responsible to contribute in whatever way they can..
The 'Contribution' needs no one's approval..It just needs to be done — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question. — Jonathan Safran Foer

have sufficiently urged that all suggestions as to financial innovation be regarded with extreme skepticism. Such seeming innovation is merely some variant on an old design, new only in the brief and defective memory of the financial world. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. — Lucretius

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve. — Albert Einstein

I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward. — Allan Gurganus

Editing is like attending a ten year reunion with your characters. — Stephanie Ayers

Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem. — Basil McRae

When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they'd kind of be like popcorn kernels popping ... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density. — William T. Vollmann

I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research and palazzo research that I'm planning to use for the upcoming works. — Camille Henrot

Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji — Matthew Polly

If we could direct our hearts to love only those most likely to keep it safe, how much easier would our lives be? — Kirsten Beyer

There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live. — Michael Meade

Fear makes even strong men do things they might never do otherwise, — Anonymous

The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. — Henry Rollins

I always wondered if those WWJD bracelets worked, so I bought one the other day. Well, a few minutes later, I was on a plane and this little kid was kicking my seat repeatedly, while his sister sang along with her walkman and their mother just sat there. I almost turned around and went off, and then I caught sight of my bracelet. What would Jesus do? So I lit them on fire and sent them all to Hell. — Daniel Tosh