Han Suyin Quotes

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

Han Suyin

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Long
  • Humor
  • Suicide

• Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Long
  • Goal
  • President

• Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Long
  • Need
  • Resources

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I leave the gym and my eyebrows aren't done; I'm just very uncomfortable with myself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Long
  • Tiger
  • Stick

• I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Love

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Question
  • Yourself

• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Reality
  • Best

• Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Motivational

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • City

• We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Great
  • Home

• Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

  

  Mark E. Smith
  • School
  • Age
  • Wall

• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Small
  • Personality

• The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Friendship

• This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done