Quotes About Hua

#1. You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.

Alison Goodman

#2. Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness that Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life. p20

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. "The She of the dragon will return and ascend
When the cycle of twelve draws to an end ... "
"The She of the Dragoneye will restore and defend
When the Darkforce is mastered with Hua of All Men.

Alison Goodman

#4. The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.
The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.

Yu Hua

#5. The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears

Yu Hua

#6. People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.

Yu Hua

#7. It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

Yu Hua

#8. With relief I arrived at memory's peak,
and a broader landscape came into view.

Yu Hua

#9. Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

Hsuan Hua

#10. I make my pictures for people, not for critics.

Cecil B. DeMille

#11. If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.

Yu Hua

#12. revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

Yu Hua

#13. When silence reaches an ultimate point,
the light penetrates everywhere.

Hsuan Hua

#14. You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Yu Hua

#15. I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

Fauja Singh

#16. My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love's footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else--until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang.

Yu Hua

#17. It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

Hua Ching Ni

#18. We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date.

Yu Hua

#19. Nobody thinks Asian guys are hot," Park said finally. He had to look away from her when he said it - way away, he turned his head completely. "Not here, anyway. I assume Asian guys do all right in Asia.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair

Yu Hua

#21. It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui.

Yu Hua

#22. Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.

Yu Hua

#23. I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears.

Joan Didion

#24. I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

Ken Follett

#25. One who practices virtue and selflessness should not hold any particular idea in his mind about how to fulfill his virtue, for virtue is the very nature of one's being.

Lao-Tzu

#26. No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive.

Yu Hua

#27. In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

Yu Hua

#28. Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don't want to live, you have to ask them first.

Yu Hua

#29. The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.

Hua Ching Ni

#30. My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

Yu Hua

#31. Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#32. ... because my memory had caught up with the world that had gone away.

Yu Hua

#33. If you have no obstacles in your own mind, then outer obstacles will not hinder you or cause you worry.

Hsuan Hua

#34. The important correction needed by worldly religions is the transformation from external religious teaching to truthful internal spiritual reality.

Hua Ching Ni

#35. The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

Christopher Reeve

#36. As soon as the train pulled into the station, the red guards would pour out of doors and windows like toothpaste squirting endlessly from a tube.

Yu Hua