Zong Quotes & Sayings

It was "Boom Boom" Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the five men inside. — Siobhan Fallon

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change. — Candace Bushnell

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off. — Zong Qinghou

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp. — Thomas Hoving

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. — Megan McCafferty

Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes. — Zong Qinghou

Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself. — John Morgridge

Her heard turned so her lips were at his ear. "I think that's about as real as it gets," she whispered. — Kristen Ashley

We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity. — Zong Qinghou

To truly know what is good in life you must experience the bad as well. — Various

I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth. — Zong Qinghou

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done. — Zong Qinghou

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. — Jim Carrey

People who get rich early should help the rest get rich. — Zong Qinghou

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable. — Zong Qinghou

Of all reviews, the crushing review is the most popular, as being the most readable. — Anthony Trollope

The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment. — Zong Qinghou

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society. — Zong Qinghou

they ask for water we give them sea
they ask for bread we give them sea
they ask for life we give them only the sea — M. NourbeSe Philip

The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly irridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Wishes come true when people use their wishes well and then act in ways that make those wishes come to fruition. — Ty Tashiro

You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, 'He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I'm told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic. — Zong Qinghou