Yangsze Quotes & Sayings
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A child gets a fever in the United States and it's high enough and sustainable enough, all of us can bring a child to an emergency room. Most Haitians never had that opportunity. They didn't have the emergency room to bring them to. Virtually every time your child has 102 fever, you wait for it to die and you have no clean water to give it. — Sean Penn

In the track of fear we have so many conditions, expectations, and obligations that we create a lot of rules just to protect ourselves against emotional pain, when the truth is that there shouldn't be any rules. These rules affect the quality of the channels of communication between us, because when we are afraid, we lie. If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way.The truth is I am bot what you want me to be. When I am honest and I am what I am, you are already hurt, you are mad. Then I lie to you, because I'm afraid of your judgment. I am afraid you are going to blame me, find me guilty, and punish me. — Miguel Ruiz

And take that stupid hat off! It's cutting into my neck."
He began to laugh weakly. "What a harridan you are. How could I let you be devoured when there's still so much scolding left in you?"
"How dare you say that!" But I was secretly relieved that he could speak again. "Now take that hat off."
"If I remove it, you will never treat me the same way again. — Yangsze Choo

For when the cycle of violence escapes its confines in hell, it causes earthquakes, floods, and other calamities. — Yangsze Choo

Women had little security other than jewelry, so even the poorest among us sported gold chains, earrings, and rings as their insurance. — Yangsze Choo

Was this love? It was like a consuming flame, licking through my defenses at a slow burn. — Yangsze Choo

If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out. — Mitch Hedberg

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written. — Jim Gaffigan

She just shook her head and pulled out a small bottle of some random pop star's signature perfume, spritzing me with the sickly-sweet smell.
"Oh, come on Ash, that smells like a unicorn fart," I cried, recoiling at the overpowering, candylike smell. — Cara Lynn Shultz

This practice of arranging the marriage of a dead person was uncommon, usually held in order to placate a spirit. A deceased concubine who had produced a son might be officially married to elevate her status to a wife. Or two lovers who died tragically might be united after death. That much I knew. But to marry the living to the dead was a rare and, indeed, dreadful occurrence. — Yangsze Choo

The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning. — Yangsze Choo

Qing Ming, the festival of the dead, — Yangsze Choo

It was strange to think that power in this world belonged to old men and young women. — Yangsze Choo

It seemed to me that in this confluence of cultures we had acquired one another's superstitions without necessarily any of their comforts. — Yangsze Choo

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,
while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,
affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion. — Henry Fielding

In the darkness of a thousand
withered souls, it was Er Lang's hand that I
sought, and his voice that I longed to hear. Perhaps
it is selfish of me, but an uncertain future
with him, in all its laughter and quarrels, is better
than being left behind. — Yangsze Choo

If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better. — Yangsze Choo

The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful. — Yangsze Choo

The hours, days, and years that had bled away in his opium haze demanded a payment from my future. — Yangsze Choo

You want promises of success, assurances that all will be well? I don't do that. Ask your amah here. That's why I'm the real deal. — Yangsze Choo

Amah was always wary of voicing misfortunes, fearing that to do so would only make them come true. — Yangsze Choo

I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?' What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another. — Benicio Del Toro

I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work. — Andrew Carnegie

The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday. — Jon Gordon

I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine. — Yangsze Choo

The problem with the dead was that they all wanted someone to listen to them. — Yangsze Choo

Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in. — Yangsze Choo

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal. — Frederick Lenz

We Chinese did not like to give or receive certain gifts for superstitious reasons: knives, because they could sever a relationship; handkerchiefs, for they portended weeping; and clocks, as they were thought to measure out the days of your life. — Yangsze Choo

We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights. — Dan Quayle