Huangdi Quotes

#1. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger

#2. Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.

Sorin Cerin

#3. The deliberate effort of memory for small detail is a social grace that will take a person far.

Carolyn Haines

#4. I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

Little Richard

#5. The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.

Wolfgang Smith

#6. Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

Cassandra Clare

#7. A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.

Muhammad Yunus

#8. When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Dolly Parton

#9. Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

Desmond Tutu

#10. The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.

Gautam Singhania

#11. The most humble of huts is pleasing when it is clean; the most luxurious setting offers no attraction if it is covered in dust.

Mariama Ba

#12. Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.

Tyson Chandler

#13. I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.

Douglas Coupland

#14. It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!

Madeline Zima