Xue Chen Quotes & Sayings

Nothing ever stands still," she told them. "And neither should you. — Gail Tsukiyama

Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority. — Jack London

In my eyes, all the pearls are beautiful, things born out of suffering and hard work, each one a baby of those amazing mollusks. Through them, the mother-of-pearl continues to live and travel not just the ocean, but different continents. Some will be treasured and taken care of. Others will be forgotten in some dark drawer. Their destiny will be as unique as they are. — Carol Vorvain

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? — Alexander Hamilton

She wasn't crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she'd accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling, — Clarice Lispector

And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a girl into his companionship. 'It is the most horrible of virgin sacrifices,' said Will; and he painted to himself what were Dorothea's inward sorrows as if he had been writing a choric wail. — George Eliot

And as the worms pant for your bones,
I would so like to tell you
that this happens to bears and elephants — Charles Bukowski

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. — Edwidge Danticat

Triton has lost the use of the money while BankTrust sorts things out and — David Baldacci

It can't be that bad. Surely it can't be that bad. There must be a way, only we can't see it yet. A way of making space for ourselves where we can make the best of ourselves - we just can't quite see it yet. But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you're running - panting - to catch up. How can you think clearly when you're running?..that is the beauty of the past..you leave it and come back to it and it waits for you - unchanged. You can turn back the pages , look again at the beginning. You can leaf forward and know the end. — Ahdaf Soueif