Shen Fu Quotes

#1. Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable ... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

Margaret Drabble

#2. Understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. If you like something, you don't care if it's ugly.

Shen Fu

#5. Note that both of these papers [the New York Post and the New York Daily News] are big sellers in a city whose residents like to go around saying they'd never live anyplace else on account of they'd miss the opera.

Dave Barry

#6. Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.

Joseph Kosuth

#7. I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

Oscar Wilde

#8. When love heals, scars are scarce

Agona Apell

#9. A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Alber Elbaz

#10. I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

Haywood Nelson

#11. How can it not be bothering you though?" she asked.
"Beer, whiskey, and an invisible wall," I lied.

Alyse M. Gardner

#12. Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

Jason Jones

#13. She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.

Kate Chopin

#14. The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Zhang Ziyi

#15. The question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.

Thucydides