Top 35 Ha Jin Quotes
#1. In 20,000 walks you're bound to learn a little.
Jim Harrison
#2. To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them.
Ha Jin
#3. You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
Ha Jin
#4. The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag ... The American people will hoist it themselves.
Nikita Khrushchev
#5. Without answering, he pulled the comforter over his head. If only he could sleep a few days in a row. He felt sorry for himself and sick of everything.
Ha Jin
#6. Where should he go? He wanted to find a building out of which he could jump and kill himself. How about the temple? No, it only had two stories. Too low. How about the elementary school? No, his ghost might frighten the children if he died there, and people would condemn him.
Ha Jin
#7. I find that when you lead with vision and values, engaging employees and showing them that values are just as important as profits, everyone comes on board. And not only do they come on board, but they connect to their own individual creativity.
Shari Arison
#8. But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
Ha Jin
#9. I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha Jin
#10. At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.
Ha Jin
#11. I don't like driving through the rain. Your tour is only going to go as good as your bus driver, kinda like your band is only going to be as good as your drummer.
Piggy D.
#12. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.
Deborah Harkness
#13. Liya's letter threw her parents
Ha Jin
#14. Even today, the Brazilian government estimates that there are more than sixty Indian tribes that have never been contacted by outsiders.
David Grann
#15. In short, he must be loyal only to his art.
Ha Jin
#16. Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
Ha Jin
#17. The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
Ha Jin
#18. I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile,
Ha Jin
#19. Well, I guess life's a bitch and then you die
-Totally Captivated
Yoo Ha Jin
#20. My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.
Christien Meindertsma
#21. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
Ha Jin
#22. A good marriage was full of moments of cats and dogs. It was the uneventful marriage that was headed toward disaster. In a word, the differences between the husband and the wife should only help stabilize their marriage.
Ha Jin
#23. Just a little bit too freaked to go to The Freak Show today.
Tamaki, Mariko
#24. English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
Ha Jin
#25. Indifference is the strongest contempt.
Ha Jin
#26. No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
Ha Jin
#27. Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?
Ha Jin
#28. F1s can only prescribe on in-patient drug cards and TTOs . The GMC's Good Medical Practice ( 2013 ) guidance states you should avoid providing medical care to yourself or anyone with whom you have a close personal relationship .
Oxford Handbook
#29. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.
Ha Jin
#31. Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
Ha Jin
#32. From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
W.N.P. Barbellion
#33. It's perfectly understandable, in my opinion, to find good things in the teachings of Jesus Christ or any other figure, mythical or otherwise. But to base your life on the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the Bible and claim that you are not religious is disingenuous.
David G. McAfee
#34. The only permanent aspect of creation is constant impermanence.
Chris Matakas
#35. A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.
T.C. Boyle
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