Alan Macfarlane Quotes
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
Alan Macfarlane
Quotes to Explore
In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
Zhang Zhidong
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Ramakrishna
I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.
Bai Ling
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
Isaac Barrow
The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
Jason Alexander
If you follow a strict diet for a few months, flaunting six packs abs is no big deal.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
'8 Mile' is so revered, it's like, everywhere I go, somebody's talking about it.
Omar Benson Miller
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd
That's why my wife doesn't play with me. I count her hand before she does.
Ed Case
Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.
Emperor Hirohito
Though miles may lie between us, we're never far apart, for friendship doesn't count the miles, it's measured by the heart.
Patrick Henry
We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.
Alan Macfarlane