Cao Xueqin Quotes

#1. I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Orson Scott Card

#2. There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate.

John Britt Daniel

#4. The generation of atmosphere, the aura of the uncanny, is one of the most important secrets of magic. It contributes to the willing suspension of disbelief, the feeling that, within the circle, or in the presence of the magical shrine, anything may happen.

Doreen Valiente

#5. The Evil Twin was either Tracey or Casey Reardon. I wasn't sure which one, and no one else seemed to either. All we knew for sure was that the twins were evil. Or, one of them was evil and the other just looked the same.

Jennifer Echols

#6. The world is not static, and if the roots of our perceptions, traditions, hold static, then we are doomed, I say, into destructive dogma.

R.A. Salvatore

#7. The cunning waste their pains;
The wise men vex their brains;
But the simpleton, who seeks no gains,
With belly full, he wanders free
As drifting boat upon the sea.

Cao Xueqin

#8. When you grow up, son, never ever go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn't do it.

Harry Belafonte

#9. Soft-hearted with his boy friends, maybe,' said Xi-feng with a lubricious smile; 'but when he has to do with us women he is hard enough.

Cao Xueqin

#10. In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

Mark Romanek

#11. The person who never sets priorities is the person who does not believe in his own finitude.

Kevin DeYoung

#12. The hour of reformation is always delayed; every delay gives vice another opportunity of fortifying itself by habit.

Samuel Johnson

#13. George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Howard Zinn

#14. Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.

Cao Xueqin

#15. Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.

Craig Ferguson

#16. Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

Viktor E. Frankl

#17. In Hell, it's our attachments to a fixed identity that torture us.

Chuck Palahniuk