Hu Shih Quotes

The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly beginning to die.

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• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• 'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Song
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Building
  • Fact
  • Tools

• Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Parent

• You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Sweet

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don't view it as celebrity. I'm just a worker.

  

  Adam Goldberg
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Celebrity

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Religious

• Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Free
  • motivation
  • Dedication

• I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Meaningful
  • Farewell

• Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • People
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Unique

• Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

  

  John Steinbeck

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Country
  • Judge
  • Born

• My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Weird
  • Smile
  • Nervous

• The sun exactly at noon is exactly beginning to go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly beginning to die.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Sun
  • Born
  • Creatures