Shang Yang Quotes

#1. He who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

Shang Yang

#2. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Marian Keyes

#3. He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.

Neil Gaiman

#4. To transform this world into a better place to live, make yourself a better person first.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

James Surowiecki

#6. Never believe what you cannot doubt.

Robin Skelton

#7. The stupid don't even understand something that happened long ago, the wise understand it before it develops.

Shang Yang

#8. I wish there was a device implanted in out brains to record memories, so we could play them back and watch them whenever we wanted, like old home movies.

Christine Zolendz

#9. Wine lovers all speak of their First Time, a quasi-spiritual moment of awakening to wine's wonderment. After that, it's a life sentence. I've seen it happen to even the most confirmed beer sluggers.

Jennifer Rosen

#10. Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Octavia Spencer

#12. Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

Po Bronson

#13. I grip my charm tighter. All I can think about is Yaqui Delgado's eyes, about what kind of cloak she wears, what kind of dagger she'll run through me.

Meg Medina

#14. The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

Nelson A. Miles

#15. He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

Shang Yang

#16. If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.

Shang Yang

#17. Even thou who mournst the daisies fate, that fate is thine.

Robert Burns