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.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Brian Brown

If it's a global or regional meltdown, India is not going to be spared, whereas in the past the outstanding level was really small, so foreigners weren't influencing the markets that much.

Hideo Mizutani

Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market is over.

Evan Osnos

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Otto Schily

It's defamatory to the foreigners who live here. It is a panic reaction to their loss of power,

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Mahathir Mohamad

Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,

Anthony Crescenzi

Foreigners look down on the situation a lot more readily than do U.S. investors, ... people don't sense he will be removed from office.

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Micky Arison

We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.

Phil Everly

You couldn't get me to go travel around and sit in a hotel room again. I have no interest in doing that. So everybody's happy. I am, at 74. Some people like doing it, but I never was much for that, anyway. It's a lot of work. So the only thing I miss about all of it is the camaraderie of the tour, but that doesn't offset the rest of it.

Bob Jones

I take four. I leave two in the safe at the hotel room and take two out to use during the day.

Skip Bertman

If we can't play in Tiger Stadium, we might look to another site in Louisiana. A site where there are hotel rooms. Playing at Lafayette might be a possibility. But we're not there yet.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Hal Daub

We're not getting those large conventions because we're short hotel rooms.

Brian Parker

This stand-alone Web site is a first-of-its kind in the lodging industry. We now offer consolidated resources for entrepreneurs seeking information on the lodging and franchising industries, providing an on-line Hotel 101.

Cilla Black

I rarely stay in hotels because I have friends all over the world.

Neil Peart

If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.

Karen Hechler

I was overwhelmed by the number of hotels -- there were over 12. They would invite someone to stay in their hotel for $3 a week.

Estelle Perrault

We had two hotels then - the James and the Waldorf.

Ernest Johnson

People are getting kicked out of hotels as we speak. It sends a mixed message. ... We are saying we have destruction and we need aid, and then we're having a party.

Ray Rose

That is the same thing all hotels do to keep the room fresh.

Scott Mills

It's not on a steam table getting older and older. My whole thing from being with restaurants and hotels is keeping it fresh.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Paul Browne

There is no information to suggest any New York hotels are targeted,

Emma Bunton

We've kind of been out of the public eye, even though we haven't stopped working.

Pete Rodda

We are not putting anything out that is not public record.

Kathy Nelson

Those are the things that reporters do for the public on a regular basis.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Simon Crisford

Wherever we travel around the world, we take security personnel, and this time will be no different.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Cassandra Clare

No matter what the price offered, no Downworlder would fail to listen to a warning against one of the nephilim.

Cassandra Clare

He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

J. William Fulbright

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.