Xiaotong Guan Quotes & Sayings

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. — Ovid

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. — Andre Gide

I am aware always that the powers that be are so strong, we can not go headlong to pit our forces, it would be suicidal, so we had that position. Which Lenin himself said that 'it is not only foolish to launch an armed revolution but it is a leftist criminal adventurism when the people are not ready to support it.' The people are not ready, they don't even understand what we are talking about.
... Yes, even socialism is not yet understood by people, much less communism. And the rich are very afraid of communism because it means confiscation of their wealth and liquidation of their lives. — Luis Taruc

the best revenge is being free! — Harriet Showman

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. — V.S. Pritchett

Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Music is the healing force of the universe. — Albert Ayler

You faced him down like a seasoned warrior," he [Hector] says.
"Only because I had your daggers at my back. — Rae Carson

I really don't give a care, I'm going to live for ever — Zach Braff

Buying a gun was out of the question. First, it would be difficult to keep nearby while doing a nude massage. — Marshall Thornton

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more. — Patrick O'Brian

Take it from a middle child; being a middle child sucks. You have neither the responsibility that comes with being the oldest nor the luxury that comes with being the baby. You have N O T H I N G. No label. No identity. Not to mention my fellow middle child, Nicola, was the only girl in the family. See! Nothing! You're the in-between child, squeezed into the order of things. You're the Idaho to New York and Los Angeles. You're the regular-sized cup in between the large and small. (I actually like a good medium-sized drink, to be quite honest, but you get the point.) — Connor Franta