Xinjiang Quotes

#1. In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that there are groups working on ways to help people get online when domestic networks get shut down. This could also be of use to some people in China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#2. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.

Barbara Demick

#3. Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr

#4. I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.

Claude Chabrol

#5. No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Jonathan L. Howard

#6. A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

#7. I start laughing every time because the media talks to me like I'm finishing my career and I only have one year left and time is running out.

Caroline Wozniacki

#8. I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.

Susanna Kaysen

#9. A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Joseph Addison

#10. They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore.

Pat Robertson

#11. For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#12. Well, I think," said Nobby, "that when you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, ain't worth hanging around for on a cold night wonderin' about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.

Terry Pratchett