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Quotes by Chinese Authors
"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."
"Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them."
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world."
"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."
"The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power."
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect."
"Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan."
"I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?."
"We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution."
"For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour."
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
"We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives."
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
"As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone."
"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
"When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China."
"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
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