China Quotes - page 4

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe. (Adam Smith)
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe. View quote
Adam Smith
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious... I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war. View quote
John F. Kennedy
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself. View quote
Mantak Chia
Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One. View quote
Meg Cabot
Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese. View quote
Neal Shusterman
You can't get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system. View quote
Robert Mundell
The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced. View quote
Robert Mundell
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. (Shan Sa)
The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism. View quote
Jay Parini
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area. View quote
Leon Panetta
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing. View quote
Lisa See
China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you. View quote
Ann Brashares
Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. View quote
Vint Cerf
There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China. View quote
Vint Cerf
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. (David Frum)
Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events. View quote
Diablo Cody
You know, you can imagine in China it's like: "Ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk, 'The View,' ching chong. View quote
Rosie O'Donnell
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. View quote
Iris Chang
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. View quote
Hu Shih