Quotes by Chinese authors

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"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away"

Joan Chen, Actress

"This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody"

Joan Chen, Actress

Jackie Chan

"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead"

Jackie Chan, Actor

Jackie Chan

"American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I've always been in a rebel"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"The minority yields to the majority!"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

"Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big"

Deng Xiaoping, Leader

Zhuang Zi

"When the heart is right, 'for' and 'against' are forgotten"

Zhuang Zi, Philosopher

"The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response"

Margaret Chan, Public Servant

Bai Ling

"I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree"

Bai Ling, Actress

Chow Yun-Fat

"In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero"

Chow Yun-Fat, Actor

Zhu Rongji

"Free Tibet before free trade"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

Mao Zedong

"To read too many books is harmful"

Mao Zedong, Leader

Yuan Shikai

"China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan"

Yuan Shikai, Soldier

Lao Tzu

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"To see things in the seed, that is genius"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves.""

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Silence is a source of great strength"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself"

Lao Tzu, Author

Lao Tzu

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses"

Lao Tzu, Author

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