Unidirectional Mic Quotes

#1. China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

#2. There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Tom Lehman

#3. I want to drink you until there's nothing left. I want you to magically rematerialize so I can do it again. I want a phoenix that will rise from the ashes just so I can keep burning her. I thought I knew madness, but I didn't know it before you.

Kitty Thomas

#4. Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things.

Robert Holden

#6. The hardened disobedience of men's hearts leads not to the frustration of God's plans, but to their fruition.

John Piper

#7. pleasure and pain arise from virtuous and non-virtuous actions which come not from outside, but from within yourself.

Lama Surya Das

#8. The best seasoning for food in hunger; for drink, thirst.

Socrates

#9. For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

Valerie Miner

#10. Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.

Markus Persson

#11. Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

Michael Kors

#12. I wasn't the president. And my first wife thinks I'm great. And my second wife and my - and I have a great marriage. I mean, I have a great marriage.

Donald Trump

#13. Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them

William Carlos Williams

#14. Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go.

Diana Gabaldon