Evan Osnos Quotes

Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

Evan Osnos

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• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • Work
  • Love
  • Michael

• I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Dark

• I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

  

  Ken Thompson

• Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future

• A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Devotion

• I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• [I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Government
  • Policy

• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Candle

• You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Men
  • Gun
  • Arms

• In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Choose
  • Solitude
  • Multitude

• If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn.

  

  William Hull
  • Children
  • Speak
  • Taught

• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  

  Edward V. Long
  • Society
  • Modern
  • Americans

• Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Past

• Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Americans
  • Message
  • Human Rights