Find Quote by Ma Jian Download Open image “When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.” — Ma Jian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Find Fish Like Making People Poor Taste Things Ways
People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor. — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“No one wants to be poor. In my view, and the view of many authors who have focused on poverty and practical solutions to it, we need to move beyond the industrial-era paradigm of giving them fish, or even the information-era paradigm of teaching them how to fish, and instead move closer to the cosmic paradigm of giving them the… — Robert David Steele Copy Share
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more. — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The poor have no business with culture and should beware of it. They cannot eat it; they cannot sell it; they can only pass… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
“My family had been denied the things his family had taken for granted. I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without knowledge and resources, where was that going to get me? People always lecture the poor: “Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!” But with what raw materials are the poor to make something of themselves?… — Trevor Noah Copy Share
...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are so poor because the only thing they have is MONEY — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“When our parents are alive, they stand in front of us, blocking our view of death. But once they’ve gone, we find ourselves at… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
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You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses. — David Joseph Schwartz Copy Share Image
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Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
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