China Quote by Lin Yutang

“What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God -…

— Dean Koontz

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents,…

— Lin Yutang

As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh…

— Gourav Mohanty

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

“Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant…

— Max Lucado

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors…

— Adolf Hitler

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser