Henry Sy (Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr.) Quotes

I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Future
  • Now
  • Saying

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bible
  • Hell
  • Crime

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Drunk

• À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.

  

  Victor Hugo

• Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Gay
  • Feminist

• If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • People

• For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Important
  • Character

• You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

  

  James Balog
  • Heart

• If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Long

• I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape - I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop - I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.

  

  James Comey

• My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Family

• I love America, and parts of New Jersey remind me of Newfoundland - rolling hills and gardens - it's great! I guess that's why they call it the Garden State.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great
  • Why
  • America

• If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • You
  • Down

• When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Work
  • Children
  • Business

• In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Suffering
  • Missing

• I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

  

  John Sexton
  • Believe
  • Success

• I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.

  

  Henry Sy
  • Society
  • Helping