Xiao Xiao 9 Quotes

#1. Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Peter Drucker

#2. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger

#3. That's what life is all about - you're busy, I'm busy, and the end result is death. Sooner or later, that's what it comes to. ("The Death Of Wang Asao")

Xiao Hong

#4. Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#5. Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

Wendy Kopp

#6. As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West like slabs of gold bullion.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

#7. She was like him, trying to embrace the moon while making her way in the world through instinct and drive that came only from within, because she had only herself.

Victor Robert Lee

#8. Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. And the star that leads the way is your star. So Judas lifted up his eyes and saw the luminous cloud, and he entered it.

Rodolphe Kasser

#9. When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

Daniel Gottlieb

#10. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#11. Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#12. There was no bang, no light at the end of a tunnel. I didn't feel pain or even numb, and Sirius was right, it was quicker and easier than falling asleep

Daniel Xiao Wang

#13. If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

Kirk Cameron

#14. It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

Alain De Botton

#15. The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt.

Carlo Rovelli

#16. Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#17. I was the only person at Univision who had complete creative control of my own show, by contract. They didn't like that. I was the executive producer; I owned the studio where we taped. I decided who went on my show and who didn't.

Cristina Saralegui

#18. That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#19. No one is too big to apologize, but some are too little.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies; tomorrow it would be the spirit.

Zhu Xiao-Mei

#21. I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#22. The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

#23. Kyle clapped his hands together. "Goody! The Zoe dates back some 3000 years to when the Greek gods ruled."
"Who's Zoe?" I interjected.
Kyle huffed. "It's not a who, it's a what.

Nicole Gulla

#24. I don't think the NFL has ever seen the likes of me, a quarterback who moves the way I do and throws the way I do. I'm not saying that with arrogance or anything. That is just how I feel.

Michael Vick

#25. Abraham Lincoln got shot and died,
Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.

Too $hort

#26. This time we'll be fighting for the nation. The company commander says that it's better to be the ghost of a fallen soldier than a nationless slave. For the sake of our fellow countrymen, our families and our children, we have to resist to the very end ... ("Vague Expectations")

Xiao Hong

#27. Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.

Ted Agon

#28. What took you so long? Waiting for Buddha?

Victor Robert Lee

#29. After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Victor Robert Lee

#30. As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Ha-Joon Chang