Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yang Lan

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Xun Zi

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Xun Zi

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Xun Zi

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Xun Zi

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Xun Zi

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Xun Zi

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Xun Zi

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

Darin Dollemore

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Jeff Battles

We haven't had a guy in the finals in 10 years, so it's unbelievable right now.

Mike Polz

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Brendan Higgins

We went to the regional finals last year and we had a lead with about two minutes left in the game. It was a disappointing loss last year. We tasted it. We spent a year having this goal in mind. We're here now.

Fred Russell

I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a week.

Ron Averill

Having those three guys in the finals is going to nail our name to the wall pretty well.

Jim Boeheim

We've been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game.

Steve Virgil

He was strong and really athletic. It was a tough match, but it was a big thing for me just to be down here. A lot of guys would have liked to have been out there in the finals tonight.

Chauncey Billups

He's played a lot of years and not gotten to the Finals yet, where he wants to be.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Susan Morris

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

William Mosher

That was surprising to us. The previous studies had not shown as much.

Hideo Kojima

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Kim Yuna

Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.

Norman McLaren

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled.

George Papandreou

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Chris Tarrant

Of course, completely, ... My previous producer always said we were there to learn.

Regina Smith

It's not unlike what we've seen in previous years.

Paul Frost

It was just, but only just, better than the previous week. Three anglers managed to catch.

Jim Marshall

On one hand, (they're) relieved and on the other hand, they're soldiers and they want to be there,

Sarah Rose

Just so relieved we have another year to turn things around for St. Joe's.

Ann Brashares

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

Mary Pierce

I am just very relieved to get through,

Danica Patrick

More than anything, I'm more relieved after this run.

Andrew Schwartz

Now that choke-hold has been relieved at least for a week.

Denise Baklid

We are ecstatic. We are relieved and we are truly blessed.

Carolyn Battaglia

I'm just relieved that the situation has been resolved.

Art Pulaski

He's rethinking some of his takeaways. We're relieved that he is.