"Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries."

-- Li Peng

#Country Quotes #Community Quotes #Political Quotes

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

Source : "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.
“Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.”
“The expectations of the viewer are what you're asking about. And the expectations of the viewer are manifold. However, they are very fixed, given who I am in the world. People have certain expectations of me as an artist.”
“Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory â€“ which is both disturbing and pleasurable.”

Source : Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”
“There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.”
“It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.”
“We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.”
“How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.143, Penguin

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