"I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was."

-- Charles R. Morris

#Years Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?”
“In the garden of our house, when I was three. My brothers and I had a jumping wall. I remember it as enormously high, but it was probably only about a foot and a half.”

Source : Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2007.
“Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext
“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. Itâ€™s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”
“It never stops, accepting that fact is difficult. I took some time out for life.”
“Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!”
“If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...”

Source : "If - " st. 2 (1910)

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