Quotes About Xiao

#1. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#2. As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West like slabs of gold bullion.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

#3. Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

Wendy Kopp

#4. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger

#5. After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Victor Robert Lee

#6. When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God.

Amos Smith

#7. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

Xiao Hong

#8. You are only as powerful as that which you stand.

Gary Zukav

#9. To become a leader, you must first become a human being

Confucius

#10. You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Guy Maddin

#11. Exacerbate, v.
I believe your exact words were: You're getting too emotional.

David Levithan

#12. There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep

Daniel Xiao Wang

#13. Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#14. I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

Evangeline Lilly

#15. She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.

Victor Robert Lee

#16. Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#18. That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#19. I don't do well without you," he said. "Who I was before
I never want to be that person again. But I told you when I took you away from here that when everything was over, it would be your choice. You would get to choose where you wanted to go and who you wanted to be.

Alexandra Bracken

#20. Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies; tomorrow it would be the spirit.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#21. I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#22. I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

Jesse Ventura

#23. In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

Harald Zur Hausen

#24. Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism

Jack Goldstone

#25. Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

Andy Andrews

#27. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#28. What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Victor Robert Lee

#29. The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

Bill Gates

#30. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei