Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Chin-Ning Chu

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• They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Great
  • You
  • Couple

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • You
  • Imagine

• One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Career
  • Point
  • Committed

• I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I'd win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I'm still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Party
  • Myself

• Truth is the best defense.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Truth Is

• I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Chance

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Knows
  • Taste
  • Western

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lies

• Sometimes you read a script, and you just think, 'Wow, I would love to go and tell that story, and I don't even care what happens to the film, I would just love that experience.' And often, that mentality makes a great film.

  

  Jim Sturgess
  • Great
  • Experience

• Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Language
  • Spirit
  • Habit

• If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

  

  Cilla Black

• As a model, I travel non-stop.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Stop
  • Travel
  • Model

• It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Words
  • Spirit
  • Actions