Asia Studies Quotes

#1. Poison is a coward's weapon' the king complained. Ned had heard enough. 'You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?

George R R Martin

#2. Now you know what it's like to want something you can't have.

Michelle A. Valentine

#3. We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

Tom Allen

#4. Americans just want us to ... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified ... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

John Glenn

#5. Even if you're the greatest of all time, people are not just going to give it to you. It's a great lesson.

Eugenie Bouchard

#6. Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Amy Harmon

#7. My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.

Janet Yellen

#8. This is the 21st century, yet Western scholars are happy to keep it colonial, describing Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in Greco-Hellenic or Judeo-Christians terms.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#9. It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

E. O. Wilson

#10. I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment.

Tommy Koh

#11. Still, if I was really relying on luck, I might as well roll the dice. I stood up, trying to remember the name of the old Roman goddess of chance - Fortuna? It didn't matter. I was quite sure she only spoke Latin, and I didn't. I

Jeff Lindsay

#12. Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Walter Mosley