Beijing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Cities #Nightmare #Beijing
Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!
-- Lee Hsien Loong

#Window #Beijing #Residents
Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council.
-- Li Zhaoxing

#Iran #Effort #Beijing
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
-- Ma Jian

#Book #Beijing #Banned
Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
-- Ma Jian

#Years #Beijing #Coma
I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.
-- Marcus Brigstocke

#Interesting #Beijing #Shanghai
It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
-- Ryan Hall

#Disappointment #Years #Beijing
My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.
-- Shawn Johnson

#Gymnastics #Beijing #Difficulty
Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
-- Gary Hustwit

#Example #Olympics #Beijing

He who will not risk cannot win.
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities.
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. It seems clear here that style is not the important issue as much as the depth of content.
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Don't tell me the sky's the limit.
Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.