Qiming Li Quotes

#1. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

Margaret Atwood

#2. A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,
just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

Alexander Smith

#4. Later in life, it would occur to me that this was the ultimate dichotomy: for a person to want what's best but draw from their worst.

David Arnold

#5. The first duty of life is to live.

Burt Lancaster

#6. I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

David Hockney

#7. To her you're Jocelyn's daughter. But I'll always be Valentine's son

Cassandra Clare

#8. Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

Victoria Glendinning

#9. If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

Jason Calacanis

#10. Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies - and worry because they never seem to get their work done.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Every time something pops in my head, I think twice about it and I do it anyway.

Gilbert Gottfried

#12. It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.

Michael Kimmelman