Soong May Ling Quotes

#1. West Young. My West Young. The guy who fought for me when Conner and his friend tried to jump me. The guy who took on a fight to help save my family. The guy who held me while I mourned my own losses. That's West Young. The man I'm falling for.

Katie McGarry

#2. Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

Soong May-ling

#3. Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Jimmy Buffett

#4. Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
Figures pedantical
these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

William Shakespeare

#5. If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

Pam Brown

#6. We write our own destiny;
we become what we do.

Soong May-ling

#7. Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.

Naomi Wood

#8. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, means we won't be able to see what we are unable to eat

Daniel Lee Edstrom

#9. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

#10. No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Soong May-ling

#11. Just like the front and the back of the hand, being and action are distinct yet inseparable.

Werner Erhard

#12. I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

Soong May-ling

#13. Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

Rodney Dangerfield

#14. There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Soong May-ling

#15. I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

Soong May-ling

#16. The only thing Oriental about me is my face,

Soong May-ling

#17. Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.

Alexis Hall