Sima Yi Quotes

#1. Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,
it is exceedingly short.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Proper learning isn't just useful in society, Beryl. It can be wonderfully yours, a thing to have and keep just for you.

Paula McLain

#3. As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.

Kevin Rudd

#4. I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

Christoph Waltz

#5. I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Joan Didion

#6. Wow," Liv said, when I dropped the mallet back into the drawer. "That looked like fun. I call dibs on the next over-the-top destruction of evidence.

Rachel Vincent

#7. Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Colin Powell

#8. We still have time to back out, I guess, if we want to. I don't see the karmic police coming to take us into existential custody, y'know?

David Berger

#9. - What are you writing? I looked up at her, somewhat surprised. I had absolutely no idea.

Patti Smith

#10. I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools ... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

Paul Cezanne

#11. ... often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.

Sima Yi

#13. There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!

Sima Yi

#14. Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!

Sima Yi

#15. To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Masahisa Goi

#16. So I guess this just means all guys are pieces of shit!

C.C. Hunter

#17. Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!

Nina Dobrev