Top 83 Yi Yi Quotes
#1. He's happy, Yi-yi."
I went very still. "He, who?"
"The one who danced you into love.
Karen Marie Moning
#2. I just realized that I'm just going to be who I am. I don't need to adjust how I look for anyone or even for myself. Even if I have a pimple, I'm not going to cover it up with makeup.
Charlyne Yi
#3. If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
Confucius
#5. Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!
Sima Yi
#6. Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.
Yi
#7. All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#8. There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!
Sima Yi
#9. So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.
Wu Ming-Yi
#10. A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.
Yi Sun-sin
#11. Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.
Charlyne Yi
#12. Congratulations are in order for Woody Allen - he and Soon Yi have a brand new baby daughter. It's all part of Woody's plan to grow his own wives.
David Letterman
#13. Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!
Charlyne Yi
#14. Place is security, space is freedom.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#15. You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.
Charlyne Yi
#16. Birds are born to have wings; wings are symbols of freedom.
Nancy Yi Fan
#17. I am bigger and stronger than ever. My Chen Taiji and health regimen has served me well all of these years, thanks to Master Ren Guang-yi. I look forward to being on stage performing, and writing more songs to connect with your hearts and spirits and the universe well into the future.
Lou Reed
#18. Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. "I - I'll keep it safe," he muttered to Winger. "For the hero, when he comes ... "
Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his thin face. "The hero is here, Wind-voice," he said, awed. "You're the hero.
Nancy Yi Fan
#19. There are five possible operations for any army. If you can fight, fight; if you cannot fight, defend; if you cannot defend, flee; if you cannot flee, surrender; if you cannot surrender, die.
Sima Yi
#20. I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.
Charlyne Yi
#21. I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.
Charlyne Yi
#22. Those willing to die will live, and those willing to live will die.
Yi Sun-sin
#23. I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'
Charlyne Yi
#24. I'd love to help the entire world. Even to change the life of one child is amazing.
Charlyne Yi
#25. If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
Cheng Yi
#27. We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.
Wu Yi
#28. Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.
Charlyne Yi
#29. I think as human beings we contradict our feelings constantly, we make mistakes, but I think ultimately it comes down to actions to define how we feel about each other.
Charlyne Yi
#30. The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.
Charlyne Yi
#31. I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."
Charlyne Yi
#32. Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain for a long period forgetful of objects, you will naturally become unified. This is the essential art of zazen.32
Yi Wu Taigen Leighton
#33. A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#34. My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.
Charlyne Yi
#35. I think whatever comes natural is probably the truth, and the truth is the strongest form of anything - whether serious or funny.
Charlyne Yi
#36. Being cynical isn't necessarily being negative or bitter. It's a person who is wary of mistaking love for something that it's not and getting their heart broken.
Charlyne Yi
#37. I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.
Charlyne Yi
#38. It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#39. Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love.
Lisa See
#40. The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow
Yi Mun-Yol
#41. People do evil simply because they do not know.
Cheng Yi
#42. I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.
Charlyne Yi
#43. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.
Ng Yi-Sheng
#44. YI think what's cool about 'Scott Pilgrim' is that it shows that there is a superhero within all of us. There's not one ideal image of what a superhero looks like, and you don't really see that until the end of the film.
Ellen Wong
#45. I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.
Charlyne Yi
#46. Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.
Wu Ming-Yi
#47. The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.
Yi Sun-sin
#48. People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#49. What makes all those women sexy? Were they just born sexy? I guess it's the way they act. I don't want to have to act sexy. I just want to be me, and if I don't happen to be sexy, oh well. That's OK. I don't want to force something I'm not.
Charlyne Yi
#50. A true master is an eternal student
Yi
#51. You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.
Wu Ming-Yi
#53. Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!
Mark Twain
#54. If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek.
Yi-Ping Ong
#55. The internet's weird. It's kind of harvesting the negativity. I think negativity has always been out there, but because people are hiding behind the screen, they feel able to express these hateful feelings they've maybe been keeping inside.
Charlyne Yi
#56. We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take place, we need good economic conditions ... and we need to do it under tight control.
Wu Yi
#57. Why is this class so lifeless? Like fools always watching to see how the next boy is reacting?
Yi Mun-Yol
#58. I would never sign up to film my personal life.
Charlyne Yi
#59. I don't have time. I make it.
Shu Yi
#60. As a minority author going against the trend, I have only one wish: Should my work fade into obscurity, let it be because my talents are found lacking.
Yi Zhu
#61. As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.
Wu Yi
#62. Indeed, life is full of tests. You don't know what they are, so you must treat everything in life with the same care you would bring to a test on which your future rests. I realize that the most important test of all, in my quest, and in every bird's quest, is the test to be the master of fate.
Nancy Yi Fan
#63. Even when I'm stressed out I'm not mean to people. I'm not constantly rude to people. But sometimes people are so rude.
Charlyne Yi
#64. So many people get deals, so many YouTubers get scripts and things made because they're constantly creating things on their own. Even if it's really cheap and it's really simple, if it's just good in itself then that's all that matters.
Charlyne Yi
#65. Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.
Charlyne Yi
#66. What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end's impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?
Teo Yi Han
#67. You can't help but feel the energy of the audience - and if you feel they hate you that feels weird and dirty. But I would never want to take it too seriously. It's understandable that you're not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I think that's helped me survive.
Charlyne Yi
#68. Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'
Charlyne Yi
#69. They like the illusion that there's enough security in a marriage to act like a fool without worrying about judgement
Alice Yi-Li Yeh
#70. I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.
Charlyne Yi
#71. Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#72. The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan
Eric Weiner
#73. Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.
Yi Sun-sin
#74. I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.
Charlyne Yi
#75. Geography is the study of earth as the home of people
Yi-Fu Tuan
#76. Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.
Charlyne Yi
#77. If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.
Cheng Yi
#78. 'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done ... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.
Charlyne Yi
#79. Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#80. There are some things that other people just don't want to forgive you for. For instance, Woody Allen and Soon-Yi.
Steven Gaines
#81. Collaboration is just about finding people who are better than you at certain things and combining your powers. Like, if I'm not the strongest at playing piano, I'll work with someone who's really good at it and we'll combine both our brains to write a song.
Charlyne Yi
#82. Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one's ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.
Teo Yi Han
#83. I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah
Johnny Mercer
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