Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.Chiang Kai-shek
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
Jack Kerouac -
I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
Jack Lemmon -
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
Walter Kirn -
It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
Nate Silver -
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Vernor Vinge -
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
Edmund White
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
Orison Swett Marden -
The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
Adam Peaty -
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann -
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks -
My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
Omar Bongo -
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Zig Ziglar
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Alvin wondered if it was true-if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart’s desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
Orson Scott Card -
It is better to go to defeat with free will than to live in a meaningless security as a cog in a machine.
Isaac Asimov -
It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.
Kevin Rudd -
The relation of word to thought, and the creation of new concepts is a complex, delicate and enigmatic process unfolding in our soul.
Leo Tolstoy -
But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.
Ai Weiwei -
Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.
Dorothy Day
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Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
Donatella Versace -
With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
Bobbie Ann Mason -
Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.
Virginia Euwer Wolff -
If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.
Michael Shannon -
We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.
Chiang Kai-shek