Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
-
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
-
Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
-
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
-
I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.
-
You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.
-
The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
-
It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.
-
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
-
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.
-
What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
-
Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
-
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.
-
The meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin took place in a very warm and friendly atmosphere, ... Our relations are now at a peak and that meets the interests of both nations as well as the interests of regional and international stability.
-
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
-
Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.
