Ha Jin Quotes

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

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• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wind
  • Page
  • Facebook

• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Media
  • First Amendment

• At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Idea
  • Something
  • Begin

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Men
  • College
  • Back

• Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • English
  • Thought

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Yourself

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • People
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Truth is independent of facts always.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Independent

• Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cure
  • Ill
  • Ruins

• Buddhism calls anger 'corruption of the mind,' Manicheism 'root of the tree of death.' I know this, but what good does it do me to know?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Death

• The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Moving

• The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

  

  Ha Jin
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Stronger