Quotes About The Opium Wars

#1. I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

John Frusciante

#2. I think that being part of privilege and never having to work a day in your life is so boring. I'm so glad of what I've achieved. I'm so glad I've achieved it as well.

Callum Blue

#3. When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.

Bryant McGill

#4. [H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.

Ben Elton

#5. I came to the village, and the churchyard where the dead had been quietly buried, "in the sure and certain hope" which Christmas time inspired. What

Charles Dickens

#6. How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

Paula Poundstone

#7. Symmetry is for God, not for us.

Louis De Bernieres

#8. Speaking of Quarterback nicknames, you hear they're calling Jay Cutler 50 cent? Because you only get two quarters out of him.

Frank Caliendo

#9. Three principles of prayer:
1. Keep it honest.
2. Keep it simple.
3. Keep it up.

Nicky Gumbel

#10. While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. Fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius);

William Gaddis

#12. I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

Dennis C. Blair

#13. An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China - the direct result of the British love of tea.

Tom Standage

#14. I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Elizabeth Taylor

#15. I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

Ray Davies