Sun Tsu General Chinese Quotes

#1. Faith moves mountains; love moves the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. for every one bad apple, there are thousands more whose hearts are full of kindness.

Lucinda Riley

#3. Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

Sally Mann

#4. Look into the world
how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.

Laurence Sterne

#5. Birdie wondered why that so often seemed to be the case - once you had what you wanted, it was a shadow of what you'd dreamed it to be.

Lisa Unger

#6. A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats)
Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats)
Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats)
"Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats)
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

Trudi Hammel Garland

#7. There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

William Gilmore Simms

#8. There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Samuel Butler

#9. Refugees come from many different backgrounds and live in many different circumstances, so I wouldn't like to generalise. But I think refugees from the U.K. would probably be healthier and better fed than those from many other countries.

Gillian Cross

#10. When people we love and trust do not have a map of reality that is wide enough to fit our experiences, they often feel afraid for us. In their efforts to limit perceived harm, they end up instead limiting and inhibiting our personal growth.

Therese Rowley

#11. Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

#12. You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.

Franz Kafka

#13. I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith.

Paulo Coelho

#14. I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Anthony Bourdain

#15. The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

Zadie Smith