Lin Yutang Quotes

The greatest ideal that man can aspire to is not to be a show-case of virtue, but just to be a genial, likable and reasonable human being.

Lin Yutang

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• I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Impact

• 'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• People have said to me, 'It must be nice to prove so many people wrong,' but I've never really cared about proving anything to anybody else.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • May
  • Beauty
  • See

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Working
  • Speaking
  • CIA

• Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
  • Play
  • Blind

• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Justice
  • Mercy

• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• People have to do what they want to do.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Want

• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Parent

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Power
  • Change
  • Unique

• The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Bad
  • Red
  • Ugly

• My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Good
  • Career
  • Parents

• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Wishes
  • Young Man

• Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• I'd love Shakey Bill to tell me a story - I mean, William Shakespeare, he could squeak a nib couldn't he?

  

  Rik Mayall
  • Shakespeare
  • William

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down. Because when you're wearing prosthetic makeup, of course, you have to really move your face a lot more to convey things through the makeup.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Love Is

• I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

  

  Steve Clevenger
  • Law
  • Rights
  • Supporting

• The greatest ideal that man can aspire to is not to be a show-case of virtue, but just to be a genial, likable and reasonable human being.

  

  Lin Yutang