Top 100 Quotes About China
#1. There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.
Michael Anti
#2. By the Nineties, so many people were moonlighting and creating their own professional identities that China generated a brisk new business in the printing of business cards.
Evan Osnos
#3. I've said I won't eat meat until the whole world can eat it responsibly, which is going to be hard. It's becoming more and more fashionable to eat more and more meat and they've just made it fashionable to eat meat in the east in China, which is a massive population.
Douglas Booth
#4. I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors were scholars in China while his were starving in pits.
Naomi Novik
#5. I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.
Ai Weiwei
#6. The fact that picking out china patterns was pretty gay didn't bother me, since we were picking them out to shoot them. Frank chose the design. Ivory white with solid black borders and real gold edging. Fucking expensive. He made me pay.
Nicole Castle
#7. They think there are only two kinds of young women in China: good girls or prostitutes.
Xiaolu Guo
#8. We are not facing China alone; we are facing China together with a lot of other people in the region.
Tsai Ing-wen
#9. One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
Alan Greenspan
#10. Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Barry Hughart
#11. In 2008, Putin's message was, 'We aren't like a Central Asian republic, we aren't going to build a personalistic regime, we will have institutions.' This is all abolished now. The very idea of a governing party and party career, as you have in China, that didn't work.
Ivan Krastev
#12. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville
#13. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
#14. The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.
Phil Gramm
#15. I have a rule: I prefer anyone who doesn't try to kill me to anyone who does. I'm funny that way.
China Mieville
#16. The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.
Dan Quayle
#17. Your boyfriend's penis is not an awkward string of spaghetti that has to be scooped up and sucked down. The Emperor of China once asked Lao-tzu: How should I rule the kingdom? To which Lao-tzu replied: Rule the kingdom as you would cook a small fish. A really good blowjob is the same.
Chloe Thurlow
#18. India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
Judit Polgar
#19. China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
Brigitte Bardot
#20. In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.
Ma Huateng
#21. China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.
Wesley Clark
#22. Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.
Kevin Kwan
#23. While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.
Douglas MacArthur
#24. Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.
Noam Chomsky
#25. My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.
Audrey Meadows
#26. The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.
Tom Clancy
#28. In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
Ray Dalio
#29. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#30. China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.
Rosemary Mahoney
#31. But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.
China Mieville
#32. The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.
Victor Koo
#33. Gods it's well done, she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.
China Mieville
#34. Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.
James Packer
#35. Building a good, stable, and productive China-U.S. relationship is in our mutual interest of our two countries and our two peoples, and also contributes to peace and development.
Hu Jintao
#36. If Peking wasn't stopped in the peninsular war, he argued, China would be recognized as "the military colossus of the East." U.S. prestige would plummet, and the world's new nations would gravitate toward neutralism.
William Manchester
#37. China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.
Li Keqiang
#38. In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.
Vivien Alcock
#39. President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.
Jimmy Fallon
#40. It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.
Zhou Yongkang
#41. I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Jung Chang
#42. The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.
Klaus Schwab
#43. The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
Hans Rosling
#44. The United States can no longer rely upon foreign nations such as China to bail us out of our economic irresponsibility. We must live within our means and implement creative, free-market solutions to put Americans back in jobs and to create economic opportunities.
Pete Sessions
#45. The message I would say to China is, 'Carry on with the reform; carry on with the change you are making.'
George Osborne
#46. In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.
Andrew Weil
#47. I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.
Ralph Nader
#48. On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!
Rudyard Kipling
#49. Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.
Ma Jun
#50. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
China Mieville
#51. The United States is the result of an enlightened philosophy; China is the outcome of traditions and history.
Patrick Mendis
#52. Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Rebecca West
#53. Sure, sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least partially. They make nothing in the United States, virtually.
Donald Trump
#54. His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.
China Mieville
#55. All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.
Peter Shaffer
#56. Chinese experts noted that the U.S. economy has rebounded from the 2008 crash more strongly than some analysts here had expected, while China's own growth is slowing after several decades of rocket-ship acceleration.
David Ignatius
#57. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.
Roger Altman
#58. Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
China Mieville
#59. Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.
Barry McGuire
#60. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
Matthew Polly
#61. Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that."
Every Boy's Got One
Meg Cabot
#62. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.
Dominic Stevenson
#63. There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
Michael Phelps
#64. Silks" ... "China" ... "Men's Suits" ... but what about canes? ... or crutches?
"Oh, certainly ... yes, yes, of course ... third floor ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#65. Sorry China ... the Earth revolves around the sun ... not you. FREE TIBET TODAY!
Timothy Pina
#66. as many as one billion frogs are harvested for consumption in Indonesia and China each year.
Nicholas Belardes
#67. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map." - Kirkus Reviews
Milena Banks
#68. Our expectation is that by 2050, which is a long time away, India will be the largest economy in the world, overtaking both the U.S. and China.
Adi Godrej
#69. We help Chinese companies grow their customers abroad. They use Facebook ads to find more customers. For example, Lenovo used Facebook ads to sell its new phone. In China, I also see economic growth. We admire it.
Mark Zuckerberg
#70. You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.
China Mieville
#71. The price starts at $375, half the cost of the iPhone 6 in China.
Anonymous
#72. It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.
Bob Geldof
#73. Overall employment pressure is also fading because China's working-age population peaked in 2011 and the fall is expected to accelerate, due largely to the decades-old one-child policy.
Anonymous
#74. I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.
Lisa Ling
#75. From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade.
Naomi Klein
#76. Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
Joseph Needham
#77. Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
China Mieville
#78. Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.
Dalai Lama
#79. Officers looked at the antique once-animals that eyed them back, at the no giant tank, at the nowhere anything so big and missing as Architeuthis could be.
China Mieville
#80. Mrs. Darling to May Pentecost who showed Mrs. Darling her room:
"I shall unpack my china in here, if your husband will be kind enough to bring it up. I do think it's important to be surrounded by pretty things, don't you?
Eric Malpass
#81. In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.
Li Shufu
#82. Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
Jack Valenti
#83. We want to make America great again. We want to bring back our industry, we want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan, and by the way Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. And that's what it's about. I have not heard about these incidences.
Donald Trump
#84. I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.
Li Bingbing
#85. I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.
Henry A. Kissinger
#86. A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
Henry Kissinger
#87. A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.
Patrick Mendis
#88. It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.
Mao Zedong
#90. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
Lin Yutang
#91. The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.
China Mieville
#92. While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
Ma Jun
#93. Neither Europe nor the United States can afford to allow Xi's grandiose vision to materialize. And so they must allow Russia to compete with China for influence in its own backyard.
Anonymous
#94. The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China.
William Hague
#95. Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.
Evan Osnos
#96. Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
Chiang Kai-shek
#97. Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
Martin Van Creveld
#98. In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
Sellapan Ramanathan
#99. Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
Chris Patten
#100. Together we gazed out over corkscrew switchbacks cut through a barren, rocky landscape stretching to the horizon. It was simultaneously awesome and insane to be in this spot as a family, though, for a flicker of an instant, the lone explorer in me longed to be out there alone with just a 4x4.
Alan Paul
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