Chinese Exceptionalism Quotes

#1. If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.

Henry Kissinger

#2. For ardent believers in Chinese exceptionalism, the Confucian tradition of political stability and centralized state power is the critical factor in the realization of a 'harmonious society.

Patrick Mendis

#3. Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence, or words like that. Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow.

Jack Kerouac

#4. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. Scratching people where they itch and addressing their 'felt needs' is a stratagem of the poor steward of the oracles of God. This was the recipe for success for the false prophets of the Old Testament.

R.C. Sproul

#7. Fighting her smile, his sister reached over and ran her hand through his hair. "That, my sweet brother, is called heartbreak."
He glanced down at his chest. "Will that be a physical deformity?

G.A. Aiken

#8. Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

Dan Savage

#10. Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation.

Donald Miller

#11. When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.

Sloane Crosley

#12. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Hayao Miyazaki

#13. When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something that puts his beloved in a bad light, he should believe neither his ears nor his eyes, he should listen to his heart alone.

Marquis De Sade

#14. Fear kills swifter than bullets.

Elizabeth Norris

#15. Life listens to you, but do you speak to life?

Richardson Susairaj

#16. Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

Adele

#17. Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don't judge either as a complete win or loss.

Jerry I. Porras