"Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership."

-- Deng Xiaoping

#Maintaining Quotes #Affair Quotes #Profile Quotes

“The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.”
“Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.1, Macmillan
“Life is tragic but it's equally comic.”
“Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.”
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
“Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.”
“Imagine it. Use all your strength and imagine it exactly. And it will happen that way.”

Source : Susan Fletcher (2007). “Oystercatchers”, HarperCollins UK
“Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.”

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