Xun Kuang Quotes

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

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• You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Children
  • Guy
  • Learn

• This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Heart
  • New York
  • Village

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• Chinese people age overnight.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Age
  • Chinese

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Father
  • Trust
  • Husband

• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Society
  • Paint
  • Opponents

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Win
  • Shopping
  • Election

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • You
  • Unique
  • Voice

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Politics
  • Places
  • Brooklyn

• I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Been

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Black

• Dancing is a beautiful thing.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Beautiful
  • Thing
  • Dancing

• It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.

  

  Charles Bock
  • People
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Born