Xiaolong Qiu Quotes

#1. Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. Our happiness should not depend on external things; it is the expression of internal attitudes.

Debasish Mridha

#3. What are you reading?" "Visual Basics." The answer did not fit the picture in his mind. But it should not be surprising, he thought. He, too, had been taking an evening class on Windows applications.

Qiu Xiaolong

#4. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti

#5. When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.

Qiu Xiaolong

#6. If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Qiu Xiaolong

#7. The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

Ferdinand Marcos

#8. Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Qiu Xiaolong

#9. Fiction was not a panacea, but it did offer us a critical way of appraising and grasping the world - not just our world but that other world that had become the object of our desires.

Azar Nafisi

#10. Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people ... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

Floyd Patterson

#11. The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

Brent Runyon

#12. Here are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that they offer little help in achieving an accurate picture of what Christ looked like during the period

R.C. Sproul

#13. Jesus was soft on crime. He'd never have been elected anything.

Anne Lamott

#14. Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.

Qiu Xiaolong

#16. Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind

Allison McAtee

#17. All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Thomas Szasz

#18. Grey doesn't do nice. He does polite, maybe. And

E.L. James

#19. Every little trifle for some reason does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it forever.

E. M. Forster

#20. The wind languished. The floral curtain ceased flapping. The moonlight streamed through, lighting up her face. It was a young, animated face. At that moment, it touched a string, a peg, deep inside him.

Qiu Xiaolong