Top 100 Jin Quotes
#1. Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing; but the traditional gravity of news has eroded. -Jin Yongquan
Judy Polumbaum
#2. Amani." My eyes flew open. Jin was standing in the gates to Fahali. His face cleared as he saw me, and he ran toward me, relief written all over him. "Thank God."
"You don't believe in God," I said. It came out half a croak just as he closed the last of the space between us with a kiss.
Alwyn Hamilton
#3. Jin always smiled at me like we were both about to be in big trouble and he loved it. The prince smiled like he was forgiving you for it.
Alwyn Hamilton
#4. But the happiest he ever saw his father was when he was with Ethan, someone who never knew him as he was before, who simply accepted the person he was trying to be. Jin wasn't acting then, he thinks. He was just being kind to Ethan, returning the very thing that everyone else had denied him.
Jung Yun
#5. My name's Elai, Ellai's daughter, line of the first Cloud, the first Elly; of Pia, line of the first Jin when they made the world. And you're on my land.
C.J. Cherryh
#6. Arms around my waist caught me before I could hit the ground. "I've got you," Jin said in my ear. "Let go; I've got you.
Alwyn Hamilton
#7. You have to live, Jin, and know that I've never been prouder of anything than being the owner of your heart.
Mary Calmes
#8. My aunt Safiyah might be blood, but Jin I knew. And I didn't want to leave him. He made the world bigger. I wanted to go to the countries he'd been to. And more than anything I wanted him to ask me to go with him. But we were running out of time together.
Alwyn Hamilton
#9. I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.
Alwyn Hamilton
#10. With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#11. Jin had told me once there was no arguing against belief. It was a foreign language to logic.
Alwyn Hamilton
#12. Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)
Gene Luen Yang
#13. Does anyone want to know the details of how a plasma cutter works?" Jin asked. Nobody raised their hands. "They're really cool," she said. Nobody raised their hands.
Missy Meyer
#14. She turned to Jin now, sprawled by the fire, his hat pulled over his eyes. "I can tell you're awake. Are you coming with us?" He sighed, tipping his hat backward. "Yeah, yeah. Just trying to get some sleep before going to near certain death.
Alwyn Hamilton
#15. Jin Quan laughed. Samantha laughed too trying to find her lost dignity
Cyci Cade
#16. Separation on the River Kiang KO-JIN goes west from Ko-kaku-ro, The smoke-flowers are blurred over the river. His lone sail blots the far sky. And now I see only the river, The long Kiang, reaching heaven. Taking
Ezra Pound
#17. 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
#18. But I remember the way Jin Ling made her wishes. How she said I wish we could be together forever with the bite of a tigress. Nothing would be impossible enough to keep her wishes from being fulfilled. Not even the walled City.
Ryan Graudin
#19. In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
Yuji Horii
#20. A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#21. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba Jin
#22. I miss her, but I don't want to see her.
Kim Do-Jin
#23. She was beautiful, without comparison, but she exuded and icy and emotionless aura. She was as hard and as cold as ice and it was difficult to tell whether she was pleased or angry.
Jin Yong
#24. 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
#25. Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#26. Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#27. Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
Kim Hee-jin
#28. You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
Ha Jin
#29. When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily.
Kim Do-Jin
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. ...a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.
Min Jin Lee
#33. The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.
Qiu Jin
#35. Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals
Min Jin Lee
#36. Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
Jin Sun Mi
#37. Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage
Min Jin Lee
#38. People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful
Kim Do-Jin
#40. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
Ba Jin
#41. To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#42. Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#43. To me, my feelings and pride are important. Although I like you it's not enough to be used like that.
Kim Do-Jin
#44. All these people - both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.
Min Jin Lee
#45. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.
Min Jin Lee
#47. Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world ... but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.
Qiu Jin
#48. Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.
Ba Jin
#49. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
Ba Jin
#50. But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
Ha Jin
#51. I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Ha Jin
#52. I am a person always full of contradictions ... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
Ba Jin
#53. Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.
Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.
And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.
You Jin
#54. She's awake!
By which I mean, of course, 'She's miraculously not dead, again,' since by all rights, you should be. Oberon must really love your dumb ass.
Seanan McGuire
#55. 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
#56. Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.
Kim Do-Jin
#57. Liya's letter threw her parents
Ha Jin
#60. The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth order - the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.
Min Jin Lee
#61. Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#62. The clouds are passing by slowly as the moon appears. Like the clouds, there are certain things which will disappear with the passing of time. And when it happens, you'll realize that it wasn't any big deal.
Jin Sun Mi
#63. You will be happy. Will it satisfy you if I say again I will keep a promise I made before? Tomorrow you will be happier than today, the day after tomorrow you will be happier than tomorrow. I promise you.
Kim Do-Jin
#64. Studying is also important, but we must become humans first.
Lee Jin-wook
#65. The four of us got back into the car. In an instant, I distinctly heard a "soundless music". It was the melody of friendship, the sound of a perfectly tuned quartet who got together by chance, four hearts playing in harmony.
You Jin
#67. Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
Ba Jin
#68. What else was I meant to do? Leave you to die?"
"You might've."
"I wouldn't have.
Alwyn Hamilton
#69. Boys don't mature. They just age. But aged boys know how to flow with a different destination, and to shine with different color.
Kim Do-Jin
#70. I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.
Min Jin Lee
#71. In short, he must be loyal only to his art.
Ha Jin
#72. Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
Ha Jin
#73. You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#74. I'd thought there'd be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway - silently, suddenly.
You Jin
#75. The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
Ha Jin
#76. I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile,
Ha Jin
#77. Well, I guess life's a bitch and then you die
-Totally Captivated
Yoo Ha Jin
#78. Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.
Qiu Jin
#79. There's nothing fucking worse than knowing that you're just like everybody else.
Min Jin Lee
#80. Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
Kim Hee-jin
#81. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
Ha Jin
#82. There was more to being something than just blood.
Min Jin Lee
#83. 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
#84. Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge - it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.
Min Jin Lee
#85. Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.
Ba Jin
#86. English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
Ha Jin
#87. My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.
Ba Jin
#88. Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#90. Indifference is the strongest contempt.
Ha Jin
#91. I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.
You Jin
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.
Ryan Graudin
#95. Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
Kim Hee-jin
#96. A mother can see into her child's heart merely by looking at his shadow.
Jang Jin-sung
#97. People are awful. Drink some beer." Haruki
Min Jin Lee
#98. You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.
Ha Jin
#99. 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
#100. And Mozasu? He is Baek Isak's son? He doesn't look like me." Sunja
Min Jin Lee
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