Ban Zhao Quotes

#1. The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.

Zhang Zhao

#2. Men never fail to underestimate women.

Zhao Yun

#3. What is a good man?
Simply one whose life is useful to the world.
And a bad man is simply one whose life is harmful to others.
There are, however, those who are harmful and yet enjoy a good reputation, and who manage to profit by a show of usefulness.
These are the worst of all.

Zhang Zhao

#4. Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

James Nachtwey

#6. China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.

Hugh Sidey

#7. Never has a spear moved so fast!

Zhao Yun

#8. I wield my spear in the name of justice!

Zhao Yun

#9. Maybe what really matters is technology's power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom.

Yong Zhao

#10. Now that she'd found her Wild Mustang

Carol Grace

#11. You got warlords still running free, but yet you want a stable Liberia. You got puppets as leaders still signing off Liberia's resources to foreigners, but yet you want a developed Liberia. They are threat to a progressive Liberia.

Henry Johnson Jr

#12. It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

Zhang Zhao

#13. There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

Zhang Ziyi

#14. In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

Evan Osnos

#15. Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#16. That enemy warrior appears to be a formidable opponent. I relish the challenge.

Zhao Yun

#17. I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

Donald Trump