Qi Quotes

#1. Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

Wong Kiew Kit

#2. To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

Evan Osnos

#3. The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

Charlie Brooker

#4. There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura ... or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy. This is the energy that flows within you. It can be shaped, molded, directed.

Michael Scott

#5. Hatred could not be the basis of her resolution to fight. It provided no access to her own qi, her vital spirit. That was the deepest truth she knew about fighting. It's what she learned from her father and Sensei: fight from the peaceful place inside, from her father's place.

Jacques Antoine

#6. People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.

Ge Hong

#7. The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

Ken Cohen

#8. Qi constantly ebbs and flows through the world in cycles of creation and destruction so that an energetic equilibrium will prevail.

Ronald H Davis

#9. I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then about the two letter words. Who knew that AA, or more controversially, ZA, or QI were words? We were a games family generally.

Meg Wolitzer

#10. The spectrum of possibilities is vast and our souls long to incorporate as many as they can... We are in a constant process of learning how to think, behave, or act understanding the manifestations of Tao, the manifestation of Qi within us.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#11. I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

Alan Davies

#12. That was how it was when you loved someone: their well-being was all you thought about, if they were fine, you felt fine. That was the amazing thing about love too: when you held someone in your heart, any hardship or wrong you experienced felt like nothing but a sweet torment. Si

Tang Qi

#13. Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

Shu Qi

#14. His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded.

Elie Wiesel

#15. Gods, the love that saturated the room was so potent that Arabella couldn't breathe.
This was what she wanted. Someone who wouldn't let go, someone who would love her so much he'd wait decades to be reunited with her.

Libby Bishop

#16. I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always passive; you're not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom.

Shu Qi

#17. If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Jim Rohn

#18. Mom, he was fucking my mother. He's a motherfucker!
- Sleeping with the Fishes

MaryJanice Davidson

#19. I'm not really a money-oriented person. The press always write that I am. They don't seem to want to understand that I love the comfort of Japan and love the fact it's more peaceful, less frenzied than Hong Kong.

Shu Qi

#20. He washed gold his entire life and remained poor his entire life.

Shouhua Qi

#21. The short answer to that is 'no.' The long answer is 'fuck no.

Stephen Fry

#22. Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Jon Meacham

#23. If there's anything better, God kept it for himself.

William Gibson

#24. I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

Hannibal Buress

#25. I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

Shu Qi

#26. It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Samuel Shem

#27. If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.

Wes Fesler

#28. Life is marvelous now because I have a tape recorder.

Olga Korbut

#29. I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.

Laura Schlessinger

#30. I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.

Jenny Qi

#31. Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it.

Stephen Fry

#32. It is complete loose stool water. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. - About The Da Vinci Code

Stephen Fry

#33. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Maria Edgeworth

#34. The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

Laozi

#35. I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Shu Qi

#36. Dior jeans are one of my favorites.

Theophilus London