Top 100 Chiang Quotes
#1. I flew north to Chiang Mai, near the Burmese border, and went for a walk round town and within thirty seconds a young man appeared in front of me. 'You wanna fuck my sister?' he asked. I said no. 'You wanna fuck me?' I said no, but
Richard Coles
#2. There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.
Iwane Matsui
#3. As Dr. Chiang puts it, while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.
Carlo M. Cipolla
#4. The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.
Brian Aldiss
#5. When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
L. Ron Hubbard
#6. The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.
Seishiro Itagaki
#7. The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.
Seishiro Itagaki
#8. I went to Phuket already, but would love to go to Chiang Mai one day.
Roger Federer
#9. 'Tigerman' was born in the front seat of a Hilux SUV on the road north out of Chiang Mai.
Nick Harkaway
#10. One Week Get tussled about by Bangkok's chaos, then cruise up to Sukhothai to tour the quiet old ruins. Continue north to Chiang Mai, an easygoing cultural city. Climb up the mountain range to Pai for mountain scenery and bluesy late-nighters.
China Williams
#11. The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.
Chiang Kai-shek
#12. Living with you will be like
aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect.
Ted Chiang
#13. I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.
Chiang Kai-shek
#14. The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.
Chiang Kai-shek
#15. Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
Chiang Kai-shek
#16. Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.
Chiang Kai-shek
#17. In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
Ted Chiang
#18. The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.
Ted Chiang
#19. The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
Ted Chiang
#20. I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
Ted Chiang
#21. Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.
Chiang Kai-shek
#22. Unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.
Ted Chiang
#23. save our emotional responses for real life.
Ted Chiang
#24. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.
Chiang Kai-shek
#25. There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
#26. I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
Chiang Kai-shek
#27. She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe. Physical
Ted Chiang
#28. My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
Chiang Kai-shek
#29. Hrough the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.
Ted Chiang
#30. Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.
Ted Chiang
#31. town of Angel Haven lies somewhere in the central United States, its landscape blessed long ago by the Star Witches. A vast forest of majestic trees surrounds the town, creating a natural barricade from the world outside. The trees range from evergreen saplings
Justin Chiang
#32. Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Ted Chiang
#33. China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
Chiang Kai-shek
#34. I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.
Chiang Kai-shek
#35. People are nice to me because of how I like, and part of me likes that, but part of me feels guilty because I haven't done anything to deserve it.
Ted Chiang
#36. He considers intelligence to be a means, while I view it as an end in itself.
Ted Chiang
#37. We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
Chiang Kai-shek
#38. We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.
Chiang Kai-shek
#39. What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself.
Ted Chiang
#40. If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.
Monika Chiang
#41. From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?
Ted Chiang
#42. When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
Ted Chiang
#43. China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
Chiang Kai-shek
#44. Perhaps the only permanent solution would be a more liberal Parliament, but it is beyond my expertise to suggest how we might bring that about.
Ted Chiang
#45. I have a boutique in L.A. and travel there frequently. My visits always put me in a good mood. Maybe it's all the sunshine. I could totally live in L.A.
Monika Chiang
#47. Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.
Ted Chiang
#48. Well if you already know how the story goes, why do you need me to read it to you?"
" 'Cause I wanna hear it!
Ted Chiang
#49. Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
Chiang Kai-shek
#50. Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
Chiang Kai-shek
#51. I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God He lifts me up where I can see clearly, where everything has a distinct contour.
Chiang Kai-shek
#52. Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter. There's no technological shortcut. Adesh
Ted Chiang
#53. [T]hey gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged for forgiveness for their desire to see more.
Ted Chiang
#54. I think that young British designers have a kind of fearlessness in they way they approach fashion.
Monika Chiang
#55. Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism.
Ted Chiang
#56. My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
Chiang Kai-shek
#57. The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.
Ted Chiang
#58. The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did ... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
Ted Chiang
#59. Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
Ted Chiang
#60. There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.
Chiang Kai-shek
#61. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.
Ted Chiang
#62. It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.
Ted Chiang
#63. The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.
Chiang Kai-shek
#64. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And
Ted Chiang
#65. My new language is taking shape. It is gestalt oriented, rendering it beautifully suited for thought, but impractical for writing or speech. It wouldn't be transcribed in the form of words arranged linearly, but as a giant ideogram, to be absorbed as a whole.
Ted Chiang
#66. My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
Chiang Kai-shek
#67. Truthfully, I'm normally very picky about who does my hair.
Monika Chiang
#68. We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
Chiang Kai-shek
#69. Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
Chiang Kai-shek
#70. Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
Chiang Kai-shek
#71. Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.
Ted Chiang
#72. Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?
Ted Chiang
#73. I want her to be powerful on these covers, and sometimes that's a quiet power and other times it's a more bombastic power. But when you're going to have a book out there that's called Wonder Woman and she's on it, you have a responsibility to put out a certain kind of image.
Cliff Chiang
#74. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity.
Ted Chiang
#75. You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources of the nation. Not only soldiers, but also all citizens without exception, take part.
Chiang Kai-shek
#76. Right now each of us is a private oral culture. We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves. With our memories we are all guilty of a Whig interpretation of our personal histories, seeing our former selves as steps toward our glorious present selves.
Ted Chiang
#77. What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific.
Chiang Kai-shek
#78. I concede his greater ingenuity. It bodes well for his endeavor. Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism. I wonder what he intends to do after he's saved the world. I comprehend the Word, and the means by which it operates, and so I dissolve.
Ted Chiang
#79. Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so.
Chiang Kai-shek
#80. True beauty is what you see with the eyes of love,
Ted Chiang
#81. If we are to give the people of China complete self-government we must first solve the problem of livelihood for all, and give real freedom to the races within China. If the foundations of democracy are secure, then true equality can be achieved.
Chiang Kai-shek
#82. If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.
Ted Chiang
#83. It's funny: when you're tranquil, you will seem to radiate light, and if someone were to paint a portrait of you like that, I'd insist that they include the halo. But when you're unhappy, you will become a klaxon, built for radiating sound; a portrait of you then could simply be a fire alarm bell.
Ted Chiang
#84. Japan cannot conquer China with America in her rear, Soviet Russia on her right and England on her left - her most powerful enemies in the South Sea all flanking her. It is this international situation that constitutes one of Japan's great weaknesses.
Chiang Kai-shek
#85. I think there are those individuals who are intimidated by really smart, talented people. But for me, surrounding yourself with great talent is the key to success.
Monika Chiang
#86. I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
Ted Chiang
#87. Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.
Monika Chiang
#88. We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Chiang Kai-shek
#89. For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
Chiang Kai-shek
#90. People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we've lived; they're the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.
Ted Chiang
#91. Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that.
Ted Chiang
#92. If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.
Chiang Kai-shek
#93. Despite knowing the journey and where it leads, I embrace it and welcome every moment
Ted Chiang
#94. For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky. After
Ted Chiang
#95. If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?
Ted Chiang
#96. War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
Chiang Kai-shek
#97. When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?
Ted Chiang
#98. Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.
Monika Chiang
#99. when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation. And God sent him to Hell anyway. Ethan
Ted Chiang
#100. Experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang
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