Quotes About Empress Dowager Cixi

#1. When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

Constance Baker Motley

#2. A broken heart is a whole heart. A leaning ladder is a straight ladder.

Simcha Raz

#3. Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.

Roy Jones Jr.

#4. When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

John C. Maxwell

#5. 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

#6. Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

Stephen Colbert

#7. Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Empress Dowager Cixi

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

Empress Dowager Cixi

#10. Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

Hans Rosling

#11. Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

Joyce Meyer

#12. They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

Robert Mueller

#13. And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough.

Julie Powell

#14. In undergraduate classes, I often see writers who are still simply imitating. I mean, we all imitate - that's how we learn to speak or write in the first place - but they're writing a Dean Koontz novel or something.

Leni Zumas

#15. The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked.

Bennett Madison