Du Fu Quotes

#1. I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#2. Shine: clear dew aching with light.

Du Fu

#3. Those that were up themselves, kept others low;
Those that were low themselves, held others hard;
He suffered them to ryse or greater grow;
But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

Edmund Spenser

#4. A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

Isaac Babel

#5. After all, humans have only been flying since 1783, and that isn't time for tens of thousands of years of evolution to have caught up ... we have to think about each flight we make because it isn't yet a natural part of us.

Rick Durden

#6. Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

Andrew Tobias

#7. For every person you make happy, there's another one you disappoint.

Jodi Picoult

#8. To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave - that was magical.

Ransom Riggs

#9. Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

Du Fu

#10. Death, as well as fortune, is rather fond of the brave.

Terry Deary

#11. This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.

Du Fu

#12. I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.

Du Fu

#13. Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

Du Fu

#14. Glimpse is a meeting of dreamers in the silent night sky.

W.D. Tuck

#15. O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

Du Fu

#16. This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Du Fu

#17. My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

Du Fu

#18. Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

Du Fu

#19. A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.
Two gulls drift slowly up the river.
Vulnerable while they ride the wind,
they coast and glide with ease.
Dew is heavy on the grass below,
the spider's web is ready.
Heaven's ways include the human:
among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.

Du Fu

#20. Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

George Santayana

#21. The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

Du Fu

#22. That's my girl.
Live a good life, Ava.

Lisa Schroeder

#23. New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Heather Wilson

#24. The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

Du Fu