Zhong Nanshan Quotes & Sayings

Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city. — Alcaeus

every time you solve a problem you'd cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature's way of striking a balance? We humans don't have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us. — Charlie Jane Anders

As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. — Alan King

What is it which has always come between real life and me? What glass screen has, as it were, interposed itself between me and the enjoyment, the possession, the contact of things, leaving me only the role of the looker-on? — Henri Frederic Amiel

This is my story. These things are my past, and I will not allow them to be washed away. I will find a way to have them back. — Lauren DeStefano

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong. — Bill Bryson

The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica. Wayfaring Stranger Pg. 415 — James Lee Burke