Li Ang famous quotes

people commit suicide for only one reason - to escape torment.
-- Li Ang

#Suicide #People #Reason

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.
-- Li Ang

#Gymnastics #Thinking #Would Be

I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.
-- Li Ang

#Iowa #California #People

In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, Where is my food?
-- Li Ang

#Running #Government #Iowa

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

I think things happened the way they did for a reason

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.