Xiaodong Wang Quotes

#1. History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.

Miguel De Cervantes

#2. Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

Fay Weldon

#3. Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love.

John Mellencamp

#4. Tristan glanced my way and grinned. Lifting our hands, he brushed a feathery kiss across my skin. "What's got you so quiet, Spud?"

My knuckles tingled where his lips touched. "Oh, you."

His smile deepened. "Well, then carry on.

Angela McPherson

#5. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Philip Yancey

#6. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

John Maynard Keynes

#7. Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.

Jack Layton

#8. The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.

Nick Turse

#9. His heart was racing, and he wanted her to hear it. And he wanted her to know that from here on out, it beat solely for her.

Priscilla Glenn

#10. I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
What's that?'
I ... trust you.'
Why?'
You'll never hurt me.'
Thank you.'
But ... '
But, what?'
I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'
Why?'
'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

Avi

#11. What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.

Kurt Vonnegut