China Shop Sayings

#1. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Red always felt a little too big for his own body, like he was a clumsy ox locked in the china shop that was romance.

Barry Reese

#3. We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.

Harry S. Truman

#4. China shop rules, Juliet: you break it, you pay for it, and you broke me. You got what you deserved.

Tanya Byrne

#5. An honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#6. She left me. All this time she was gone, I didn't know if she was dead or just didn't want me. But now it doesn't matter. I choose my new parents and I choose my friends. I choose the family I made. I choose me.

Madeleine Roux

#7. He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. trust is a fragile thing, like a fine piece of rare china on display in an antiques shop. Once it's broken, the pieces never quite fit - no matter how carefully you try to glue them together.

Laura Markovitch

#9. Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, "Hey Tris!" and Uriah cries, "Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?"
"My exceptional strength," she says.

Veronica Roth

#10. Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.

Jools Holland

#11. I'm finally looking older and inviting my wrinkles.

John Stamos

#12. An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

Winston Churchill

#13. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

H.L. Mencken

#14. On the outside, the three Lynch brothers appeared remarkably dissimilar: Declan, a butter-smooth politician; Ronan, a bull in a china-shop world; Matthew, a sunlit child. On the inside, the Lynch brothers were remarkably similar: They all loved cars, themselves, and each other.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental, but there can be no doubt of his energy. The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race. The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.

Anthony Trollope

#16. I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Jose Saramago

#17. God, eldest of Poets.

William Watson

#18. [Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

Lee Friedlander

#19. Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Allan Lokos

#20. Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish.

Stephen Covey

#21. By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent -

Nikos Kazantzakis

#22. I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

Cilla Black

#23. We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest ...

Edward Kennedy

#24. I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

China Machado

#25. It suddenly occurred to me that true believers in hard-driving jazz - Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor - could never become owners of cleaning shops in malls across from railroad stations.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Eli joined Bobby in laughter. "Oh, Niki, we know you can't help it. But you're like a bull that goes into a china shop, blows everyone away, breaks all the china, and then kicks all the bodies for good measure.

J.L. Murray

#27. You were a furious bull
and I was a china shop
with beautiful red curtains.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#28. Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.

Joe Baca