Xiaoping Xu Quotes & Sayings

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think. — Adolf Eichmann

but where does this nobility come from? Generosity or fear? Wisdom or ignorance? — Devdutt Pattanaik

Ana feels like pushing her neighbour up against the wall and telling him that the locker room where those boys sit telling their stupid jokes end up preserving them like a tin can. It makes them mature more slowly, while some even go rotten inside. And they don't have any female friends, and there are no women's teams here, so they learn that hockey only belongs to them, and their coaches teach them that girls only exist for fucking. She wants to point out how all the old men in this town praise them for "fighting" and "not backing down," but not one single person tells them that when a girl says no, it means NO. And the problem with this town is not only that a boy raped a girl, but that everyone is pretending that he DIDN'T do it. So now all the other boys will think that what he did was okay. Because no one cares. — Fredrik Backman

Some hours later they were down
at the railroad tracks
standing close together by the switch lights. The huge night moved overhead
scattering drops of itself. — Anne Carson

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. — Abigail Van Buren

Look here upon this picture, and on this... — William Shakespeare

I have so few choices, really, if I can't get myself back home. Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go out far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realize that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. — Gregory Maguire

Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart! — Pope Francis

I struggled with insecurity because I was trying to find my security in things. But when I began serving God with all my heart, my security was in Him. — Jeremy Camp

Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life! — Deyth Banger

Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. — Frederick Lenz

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape — Ellen Hopkins

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive. — Patrick Ness