Ge Hong Quotes

Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt.

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• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Action
  • Technology

• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Always
  • Everything

• The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Think
  • Stupid
  • Internet

• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Child

• Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Different
  • She

• If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Attention
  • News

• Craft is everything.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Everything
  • Craft

• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

  

  Ed Case
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Value

• The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Secret
  • Being
  • Ugliness

• He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. ‘you cannot pass … Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? … Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.’

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Country
  • Age

• A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Respect

• The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hurt
  • Pride
  • Disappointment

• Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • You
  • Secret
  • Nails

• In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

  

  Shakira
  • World

• Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt.

  

  Ge Hong
  • Respect
  • Hurt
  • Old