Liu'd Quotes

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

George Herbert

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Ken Liu

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Liu Cixin

#9. 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

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

Liu Cixin

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Liu Cixin

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Liu Yang

#18. 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

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

John Liu

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

Guy Gavriel Kay

#21. 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

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

Liu Wen

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

Eric Liu

#24. 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

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

Liu Cixin

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

Eric Liu

#27. 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

#28. Italy was the only place I'd visited where people described kitchen implements as having souls of their own.

Jen Lin-Liu

#29. Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Eric Liu

#30. But it's not really Chinese, is it?'
Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.

Ken Liu

#31. I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

Lucy Liu

#32. The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Eric Liu

#33. You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

Eric Liu

#34. My favourite city is Miami. It's very fresh and the beach is sunny.

Liu Wen

#35. We will apply the experience accumulated in the past four years to the operation of every competition and training venue as well as facilities in the Olympic Village in an intensive and comprehensive way.

Liu Jingmin

#36. Making a request without revealing the feeling/need takes all the joy out of other's service.

Lucy Liu

#37. There is a time for flight, and a time for descent; a time for movement, and a time for rest; a time to do, and a time to prepare." "This

Ken Liu

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

Ken Liu

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

Liu Bolin

#40. 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

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

Ken Liu

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Ken Liu

#46. 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

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

Ken Liu

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

Liu Wen

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

Cixin Liu

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Liu Cixin

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Liu Cixin

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

Marjorie M. Liu

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

Ken Liu

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Liu Cixin

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Liu Cixin

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

Liu Xiang

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Liu Cixin

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

Lucy Liu

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

Liu Cixin

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

Liu Cixin

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

Liu Cixin

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

Liu Cixin

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Ken Liu

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

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

Cixin Liu

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

Ken Liu

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

Ken Liu

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

Lucy Liu

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

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

Betty Liu

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

Lucy Liu

#97. All life is an experiment.

Ken Liu

#98. 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

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

Liu Cixin

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

Ken Liu