Yixuan Liu Quotes

#1. Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

Alain De Botton

#2. The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Sebastian Junger

#3. There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

Florence Nightingale

#4. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#5. I learned a long time ago not to waste time analyzing why judges do the things they do.

John Grisham

#6. Hug her. That's what she's there for.

Lisa Cholodenko

#7. No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

Michael Jackson

#8. Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

Tariq Ali

#9. Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle.

Rachel E. Carter

#10. Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.

Geoff Mulgan

#11. The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Oscar Niemeyer

#12. I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.

Paula Hawkins