Chinese Quotes · Page 24

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to…

— Brice Marden

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

— Anonymous

A boycott would send a clear message to Yahoo shareholders and other companies which cheerfully sacrifice human rights in return for a…

— Anonymous

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

— Anonymous

The Chinese Communist Party is not seeking to share world leadership in a responsible way.

— Michael Waltz

One good thing about being brought up with Chinese food from another country means that you're not a purist and you will…

— Alvin Leung

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

— Paul Virilio

“To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal…

— Chris Christie

Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this…

— Noam Chomsky

You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government?…

— David Titley

All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man…

— Richard Wilhelm

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up,…

— Michael Savage

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five…

— Arne Glimcher

“Merrick and I had both had tattoos, my magpie and his elephant and castle, imposed on us as…it’s a long story. A…

— KJ Charles

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was…

— Alice Dreger

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you…

— Bill Maher

If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been…

— Michael Scott

The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed…

— David Stockman

THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops…

— John Bolton

“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that…

— Neal Stephenson

The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take…

— George Friedman

The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of…

— Misha Glenny

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,

— Abigail Washburn

The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come…

— Vijay Prashad

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher…

— Jay Leno

I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want…

— Nancy Lublin

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of…

— Mika

In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

— Salvador Dali

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want…

— Elie Wiesel

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing…

— Confucius

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

— Aleister Crowley

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the…

— Paul Theroux

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a…

— Stephen Gardiner

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

— Jennifer Lee

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

— Bernard Drainville

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

— Shashi Tharoor

“In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and…

— Paul Johnson