"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"

-- Pearl S. Buck

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Young Quotes

“Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?”
“It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.”
“My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.”
“Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.”
“Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.”
“Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.”

Source : "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.
“I only have one idol: John Lennon.”
“My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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