#chinese

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#chinese #civilisation #principle #systematic #wild

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cars #chinese #clear #electronics #germans

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #chosen #depends #eyes #generally

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#chinese #civil #civil government #empire #even

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#because #chinese #chinese government #chose #citizen

I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am. ↗

— Ang Lee

#chinese #heart #i #i am #i think

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#admit #chinese #farmers #feel #goal

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li. ↗

— Ang Lee

#america #care #chan #chinese #chinese culture