#chinese

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #cruelty #further #just #level

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#american #british #chinese #continuance #efforts

His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#chinese-department-stores #christianity #the-graf-zeppelin-club #respect

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. ↗

— David Letterman

#apology #bombed #certificate #chinese #clinton

I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't. ↗

— Bai Ling

#chinese #even #follow #i #often

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#i #interesting #thrive #times

Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#chinese food #eat #feel #food #hour

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#chinese #climbing #columbus #down #enter

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#am #because #chinese #explore #further