Liu Quotes

#1. I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace

Laurell K. Hamilton

#2. Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have "misled science into a dead end," the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin's paper, "we may still appreciate the role of Darwin in helping scientists [win an] upper hand in fighting against the creationists.

David Berlinski

#3. Fuck Master Liu! He's some ascetic who counts snowflakes on a mountain in China and dips his balls in ice water for the hell of it. You're not Liu. You live in the real world

Dakota Banks

#4. Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#5. Doubt, Master Liu always said, is death.

Steve Hockensmith

#6. Once every ten years, the three moons all fall under the world's shadow and turn scarlet, bleeding with the blood of our fallen warriors. - The New Atlas to the Moons, by Liu Xue You

Marie Lu

#7. Jets center Nick Mangold honors murdered NYPD police officers Rafael Ramos (below, l.) and Wenjian Liu by wearing NYPD cap before game against Patriots Sunday. USA TODAY

Anonymous

#8. On the other hand, if these four-Mr. Graces, the brutish Frank, the mysterious Mr. Liu, and rude little Henry-were the only company John had had for a hundred and sixty-odd years, it explained a lot about his brooding.

Meg Cabot

#9. Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.
[Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.]

George Herbert

#10. I'm too much a man for hysterics.
Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

Marjorie M. Liu

#11. Little clue: wasted on me." "What?" "I'm into girls." "Oh. Oh!" Chu said. "Right. Got it. That's cool. I've got a cousin who's gay. Amy Liu. Know her?" Jennifer laughed. "Oh, sure. I'll just look her up in the Big Book of Lesbians. We get a copy of that with the purchase of our first flannel shirt.

Libba Bray

#12. io sui ici en liu dami amo' ('I am here in place of a friend love')

Connie Willis

#13. Liu pulled her behind him; a spooky beast ran towards them. It was enormous and had the body of a tiger and nine heads with human like faces; its body covered by a green and blue hair. "Kaiming.

Cyci Cade

#14. I have so many girl crushes, it changes all the time. I love Catherine Zeta Jones, she's so beautiful, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Aniston and Zooey Deschanel; she's adorable.

Katrina Bowden

#15. There have been, in recent years, many Asian American pioneers in the public eye who've defied the condescendingly complimentary 'model minority' stereotype: actors like Lucy Liu, artists like Maya Lin, moguls like Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. They are known, often admired.

Eric Liu

#16. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.

Lucy Liu

#17. Those who flee freedom live on
but their souls die in fear
Those who thirst for freedom die
but their souls live on in resistance

Xiaobo Liu

#18. even in the face of the devastating Trisolar Crisis, the unity of the human race is still a distant dream. The

Liu Cixin

#19. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.

Liu Cixin

#20. Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We're trapped

Liu Cixin

#21. And now, the Sun really was melting, its blood seeping into the deadly plane. This was the last sunset. In

Liu Cixin

#22. I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.

Lucy Liu

#23. A civilization that cannot see the sun and stars will be without religion. There

Liu Cixin

#24. To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.

Liu Cixin

#25. Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.

Liu Cixin

#26. Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

Liu Xiang

#27. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape. The

Liu Cixin

#28. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.

Liu Cixin

#29. The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

Eric Liu

#30. She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.

Liu Cixin

#31. I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

Liu Xiaobo

#32. The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.

Ken Liu

#33. He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.

Liu Cixin

#34. The emperor is just a man, after all.

Ken Liu

#35. Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

Marjorie M. Liu

#36. Make time for civilization, for civilization won't make time.

Liu Cixin

#37. The brevity of a human lifespan tormented them as never before, and their hearts soared above the vault of time to join with their descendants and plunge into blood and fire in the icy cold of space, the eventual meeting place for the souls of all soldiers. *

Liu Cixin

#38. I love you, Hsin," he said hoarsely. "I missed you so much."
"I love you, too." Sin's voice was still thick and husky. "I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I wanted to remember you.

Santino Hassell

#39. I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer.

Liu Xia

#40. It's easy to be led to the abyss.

Liu Cixin

#41. The more perfect the ideals, the less ideal the methods.

Ken Liu

#42. If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?

Liu Cixin

#43. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.

Ken Liu

#44. All life is an experiment.

Ken Liu

#45. You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

Lucy Liu

#46. Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.

Betty Liu

#47. Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

Eric Liu

#48. unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking among human intellectuals, and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.

Liu Cixin

#49. If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

Eric Liu

#50. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering.

Liu Cixin

#51. History is the long shadow cast by the past upon the future. Shadows, by nature, lack details.

Ken Liu

#52. The past is a country to which one cannot return

Ken Liu

#53. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.

Cixin Liu

#54. I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.

Ken Liu

#55. Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.

Ken Liu

#56. The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.

Liu Cixin

#57. Sometimes it was hard to tell where the performance ended and the real self began - but what was this "real" self other than a set of performances?

Ken Liu

#58. Some have said I should demand that the surviving members of Unit 731 be brought to justice. But what does that mean? I am no longer a child. I do not want to see trials, parades, spectacles. The law does not give you real justice.

Ken Liu

#59. She may be from the sky, yet she is not so strange after all.

Ken Liu

#60. A great warrior trusts not his weapons, but himself. When you possess true strength, you can deal a killing blow even if all you have is a blade of grass. "Now

Ken Liu

#61. Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

Lucy Liu

#62. If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

Eric Liu

#63. There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.

Eric Liu

#64. But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun - which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope.

Liu Cixin

#65. After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

Eric Liu

#66. To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Eric Liu

#67. The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.

Liu Wen

#68. Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain.

Eric Liu

#69. I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

John Liu

#70. We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

Eric Liu

#71. Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Liu Yang

#72. There were few things that it needed to remember forever, and those were etched by its genes into the storage area known as instinct. Having

Liu Cixin

#73. Collin Jackson was a little before my time and he was a really good athlete. I've raced with him, but he's now retired. He's a really good role model and someone that I've learnt a lot from.

Liu Xiang

#74. Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places. At

Liu Cixin

#75. These days, they use so much pesticide that when I feed the children, I have to soak the vegetables for at least two hours.

Liu Cixin

#76. I used to see Estee Lauder's ads everywhere in the subways of Beijing, and I thought how wonderful it would be if the model on them was myself!

Liu Wen

#77. In one aspect, my works record the history of the development of Chinese society. Concern about the situation of Chinese reality is one important theme of my works. I am trying to ask, 'How does our society develop? What are the problems in our society? Where is our direction leading?'

Liu Bolin

#78. Life shouldn't be a lifetime of waiting.

Liu Cixin

#79. Life and the world were perhaps ugly, but at the limits of the micro and macro scales, everything was harmonious and beautiful. The

Liu Cixin

#80. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.

Liu Cixin

#81. A lot of people die giving birth to their children who have AIDS and HIV and a lot of people don't survive after a time because they've been sick too.

Lucy Liu

#82. Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

Liu Yang

#83. Old friends are like old clothes: they fit the best.

Ken Liu

#84. It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

Liu Dan

#85. The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name.

Ken Liu

#86. Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself.

Ken Liu

#87. Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

Eric Liu

#88. Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Eric Liu

#89. The universe is big, but life is bigger!

Cixin Liu

#90. No one else in my family works in the fashion industry.

Liu Wen

#91. We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others' lives.

Ken Liu

#92. You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

Eric Liu

#93. Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself.

Ken Liu

#94. I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

Eric Liu

#95. You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Lucy Liu

#96. Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

Eric Liu

#97. There are many ways to say I love you in this cold, dark, silent universe, as many as the twinkling stars.

Ken Liu

#98. There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

Narayan Liu

#99. Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Liu Bolin

#100. There is often no line between perfection and evil.

Ken Liu