Quotes About Cixi

#1. So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

Jung Chang

#2. Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

Ray Davies

#3. The death has an only color.

Sabrina Benulis

#4. She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.

Padma Lakshmi

#5. If being a sex symbol means you have lots of sex, then I am glad to be a sex symbol. But in real life I'm not. That doesn't happen.

Diego Luna

#6. A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Brendon Urie

#8. Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#9. Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

Empress Dowager Cixi

#10. Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

#11. It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

Bill Hicks

#12. People will tie in with a fanatic if for no other reason than to break the monotony of their lives.

Mark Clifton

#13. Nothing causes more pain, frustration, and disappointment than unfulfilled expectations.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#14. 'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#15. You do not need any preacher or prophet to learn about God. The teaching is spread on the trees and the mountains, on the stars and the river, on the Sun and the moon. The ultimate teaching is written in your heart. You just need to wake up and see.

Banani Ray

#16. You still owe me a yellow Porsche.

Stephenie Meyer

#17. That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling.

Frank Beddor

#18. Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Frank Dane