Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will have to see what the Chinese have heard most recently from the DPRK side. Perhaps they have very fresh news we have to find out.

We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or US companies.

Richard Branson

We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.

Everywhere the Chinese go in the developing world, they go with a lot of development money.

But the other factor is that we have indications that Chinese demand for platinum is recovering despite prices being stable between $845 and $880.

Peter V. Brett

The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.

Andrea Hirata

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.

This will have a big impact on Chinese banks.

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

David Carradine

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Confucius

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

Confucius

What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others.

Confucius

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

David Cameron

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

David Letterman

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Ultimately what they are planning is a Chinese space station in about 2008 or so. To do that they will need to learn about how to survive on longer missions.

Simon Hoggart

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names, they can overcharge for their own inferior fluids. There is no trickledown effect in wine prices.

There is actually some common ground, ... All three of us are facing real threats from Chinese trading policies.

Charles Schumer

We thought it was the right time to figure out where the Chinese are headed on this issue and other issues, like intellectual property and port security.

This year we will make sure all Chinese PC makers install licensed software prior to sale.

We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.

Bindi Irwin

My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.

Eddie Huang

I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.

Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.

Edward Snowden

Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now.

Grace Lin

When I was younger, I was very princessy. I always wanted to be blond-haired and blue-eyed. This was before Mulan, so I was very upset about all the Cinderellas. I always tried to imagine that maybe Snow White was Chinese since she had black hair.

Gene Luen Yang

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

Bianca Lawson

My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

Robert Morgan

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Robert Morgan

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.