Chinese Quotes - Page 15

• I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Thinking, United States

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased with them, and represents them in a positive way to the world. Especially now that they're becoming this mega-power, and no longer known as a puppet in the game, or strictly business people.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Games, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My guess is the big Chinese banks will be in 100 countries by then. They will have very sophisticated operations, and they may very well have bought banks around the world in countries that allow it. I mean, I don't think the American government would allow them to buy JPMorgan. But they will be able to buy a sizable big bank in the U.S. at some point. Whether they do or not, or if it's allowed or not, I don't know.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes."

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Suffering, Ashes

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

  Michio Kaku

  Lenses, Cost, Paper

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Firsts, Twenties

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

  Michael Emerson

  Giving Up, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself against the Pacific, against Asia. Having to think of myself in relationship to that horizon has liberated me from the black-and-white checkerboard.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Fall, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

  Charles R. Morris

  Running, Country, People

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• The tongue, the Chinese say,
  is like a sharp knife:
  it kills
  without drawing blood.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Knives, Drawing

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Fall, Taken

  "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.

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• I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

  Lou Gerstner

  Goes On, Want, Students

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• I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

  Lisa See

  Los Angeles, American Family

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• That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  Rick Riordan

  Iguanas, People, Olympus

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• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

  David Tang

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic

  Peter L. Berger

  Thinking, People, Economy

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• When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.

  Margaret Thatcher

  August, World, Littles

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• It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Issues, Democracy, Would Be

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• I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

  Warren Zevon

  Hands, Saws, Werewolf

  Song: Werewolves of London, Album: Excitable Boy

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• In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at a fish without immediately thinking of how it tastes in the mouth and wanting to eat it. The reason I don't trust Chinese surgeons is that I am afraid that when a Chinese surgeon cuts up my liver in search of a gall-stone, he may forget about the stone and put my liver in a frying pan.

  Lin Yutang

  Believe, Cutting, Thinking

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

  John Shadegg

  Years, Growth, Fuel

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• They said [on a day show], oh, you can't do a Chinese accent. That's - and I said, I'm not doing a Chinese accent. I'm doing my friend's accent. And they said, yeah, you can't do that. And I said, OK, but can I do a Russian accent? And they said, yeah, yeah, of course, you can do that. I said, and a British accent? They said, yeah, go ahead. And I couldn't understand.

  Trevor Noah

  They Said, Yeah, Accents

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Now that Mandela has been released from prison we can all admit what has been apparent, that he is not a Tembu tribesman, in fact he is not an African at all. He is quite obviously Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but it makes those who persist in seeing him as a great African statesman look rather foolish.

  Auberon Waugh

  Looks, Facts, Prison

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  Patriotic, July, Usa

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• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

  Noah Feldman

  Blow, Rights, Self

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