Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

Chiang Kai-shek

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• By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Art
  • Society
  • Poetry

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Think
  • Stars
  • Talk

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• Actors don't have real value.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real
  • Value
  • Real Value

• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Imagination
  • Forever
  • Brand

• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • People
  • Girl
  • Hurt

• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Great
  • Service

• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Limits
  • Only
  • Exceeding

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

  

  Caroline Paul
  • Death
  • Fire

• Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.

  

  Van Jones
  • Levels
  • Transition
  • Uniforms

• 'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'

  

  Philip Pullman

• I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Work
  • Care
  • Collects

• Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Souls
  • Front

• The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • War