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Liu Zongyuan
"A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow." --
Source : Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”
Liu Zongyuan
#Lonely Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Fishing Quotes
“I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.”
“Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”
“You cannot fail. You can only get results.”
“Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.”
Source : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.
“Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.”
“If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.”
“Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.”
“I got older - 16, 17 - I was like, "I want to do my own thing." I wasn't seeing eye to eye with my parents. It wasn't what they wanted for me.”
