Chinese Quotes - Page 38

• Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods.

  Steve Allen

  Religion, Mao, Billions

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

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• In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.

  Steve Forbes

  Government, Losing, Mao

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

  Graham Greene

  Art, Ducks, Cooking

  Graham Greene (1994). “In Search of a Character: Two African Journals”, Penguin USA

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• When the Chinese suspect someone of being a potential troublemaker, they always resort to one of two methods: they crush him, or they hoist him on a pedestal.

  Lu Xun

  Crush, Greatness, Two

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• I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

  Jason Isaacs

  Morning, Lying, Fighting

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• Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

  Robert Morgan

  Important, Pounds, Littles

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• A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market.

  Simon Davies

  Cutting, Sacrifice, Rights

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• The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

  Adam Smith

  Sea, Superstitions, Kind

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1”, p.372

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• In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

  Paul Johnson

  Dog, Europe, Parks

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Cooking, Tables

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• Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Simple, Vegetables

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• What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

  James Beard

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

  Brice Marden

  Art, Practice, Asian

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• There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

  Frank Capra

  Country, Believe, Usa

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Differences, Community, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Home, Italian, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

  Damon Albarn

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Names, Needs

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• I am a big Dragon fan. I've said it before- And I was fortunate enough to be born a Dragon in the Chinese Horocope.

  Peter Jackson

  Dragons, Fans, Enough

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

  E. O. Wilson

  Names, Calling

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• It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Gold, Notes

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• The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

  Alan Watts

  Beach, Moving, Book

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press

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