Chinese New Year 2021 Quotes

#1. The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had rained organs.

Rupert Thomson

#2. What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create:
a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

Ed Ayres

#3. Women tear each other apart.

Megan Fox

#4. For thousands of years, violent men have been able to tell their victims that those victims owe them something. If nothing else, they "owe them their lives" (a telling phrase) because they haven't been killed.

David Graeber

#5. For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.

Haley Joel Osment

#6. Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Even when I'm writing about shape shifters and magical lands, I'm looking into my own heart.

Kay Kenyon

#8. I knew it was all or nothing.

Carl Froch

#9. Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good ...

Thomas Merton

#10. Eddie scowled into his bowl of pretzels. The other two guys passed gas in harmony.

Rick Riordan

#11. The Republic cured me of the Republic.

Barbara W. Tuchman