Xiaowen Li Quotes

#1. If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

Don Johnson

#2. They misunderstand us, they unwittingly belittle us, they do something that they think is nice that instead just makes us mad. And those are the good ones.

Joanne Lipman

#3. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Isabel Allende

#4. For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

David Levithan

#6. There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

Jack London

#7. My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.

Jaden Smith

#8. Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

Charles I Of England

#9. I have my kids every Friday through Monday, and I don't leave them the whole time I have them.

Travis Barker

#10. Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

Elvis Costello

#11. The three most important rules in selecting the right piece of real estate are location, location, location (and when we have periods of tight money I would add terms, terms, terms).

Venita VanCaspel

#12. We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.

Barack Obama

#13. To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.

Walter Benjamin

#14. What a wise man knows is great,
what a fool knows is little,
and what God knows is infinite.
God does not condemn a man for not knowing,
but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. A glorious deed is to keep the peace.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann