Chinese Words Quotes

#1. Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#2. I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

Rick Stein

#3. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

Matthew Polly

#4. We never expressed this to each other in Chinese, because it wasn't something said in Chinese culture; the emotions were too strong, the words too coarse, and besides, it was assumed that parents and children loved each other.

Atom Yang

#5. Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Michael Anti

#6. In the words of a Chinese proverb, "The wind always destroys the tallest tree in the forest.

Chai Ling

#7. Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

Helen Keller

#8. A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Frances Mayes

#9. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

Clarence Nash

#11. Countless words
count less
than the silent balance
between yin and yang

Lao-Tzu

#12. There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

Ann Nocenti

#13. In the ancient Indian Pali language, the words for mind and heart are the same. And the Chinese character for mindfulness is a combination of two characters. One part means now and the other means mind or heart. So, when you hear the word mindfulness you can also consider it to mean heartfulness.

Shamash Alidina

#14. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." Chinese proverb

Nana Awere Damoah