Zhou Quotes

#1. The moment froze. Soldiers passing by stopped and looked, confused. Zhou could taste the moment on his tongue. The wrong move by anyone, from soldier to magician, and the fear would give way to anger, anger to violence and then to death.

G.R. Matthews

#2. Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

Pico Iyer

#3. Zhou watched the fake Chung's face vanish to be replaced by another's.
"Look, Hsin," Zhou snarled, "this is your fault."
"No." Hsin's voice was a desperate whisper.

G.R. Matthews

#4. O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?

Zhou Yu

#5. To care for others requires an ever-increasing acceptance.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#6. Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress ... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Zhou Xun

#7. I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

Zhou Xun

#8. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?

Ray Bradbury

#9. One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.

Zhou Enlai

#10. I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

Zhou Xun

#11. Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

Zhou Shengxian

#12. The noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?

Zhou Yu

#13. He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.

Zhou Yu

#14. In China's thousands of years of civilization, the conflict between humankind and nature has never been as serious as it is today.

Zhou Shengxian

#15. William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India ... He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

Robert Twigger

#16. It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Zhou Xun

#17. Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

#18. Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.

Zhou Yongkang

#19. All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

Zhou Enlai

#20. We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.

Min Zhou

#21. In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.

Zhou Xun

#22. China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

Zhou Enlai

#23. Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

Zhou Weihui

#24. I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.

Henrik Lundqvist

#25. Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.

Zhou Weihui

#26. It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

Zhou Yongkang

#27. Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.

Hafez

#28. We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

Zhou Yongkang

#29. But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

Jane Austen

#30. The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#31. You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people ... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples.

Zhou Enlai

#32. The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

Tahir Shah

#33. Being nervous is a waste of time.

Lindsey Wixson

#34. We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

Zhou Enlai

#35. Pulling seven people away from their work for an hour is worth seven hours of lost productivity.

Jason Fried

#36. I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

Deborah Buck

#37. If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

Zhou Shengxian

#38. Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Zhou Weihui

#39. If an accident happens in a plant, the aftermath will be unimaginable.

Zhou Shengxian

#40. We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations
which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.

Thomas Sowell

#41. What else is nature but God?

Seneca The Younger

#42. China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

Zhou Enlai

#43. I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

Zhou Xun