Lisa See Quotes

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.

Lisa See

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1955

Topics

BeautyWomenFeetYouVillageChina

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Mary Wortley Montagu

DiamondsLibertyChainsPrefer

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

Mike Posner

GoodMyselfDayMeFeel GoodThink

We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.

Mike D

WorldBe CarefulJustActionsOur

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

Josh McDowell

LifeGodI AmMy LifeChristian

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

Denise Mina

MenSchoolPeopleWarriorDownEven

If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.

Chip Conley

WorkHomeYouBackFeelingEmotion

Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

Clint Smith

RacismBloodAlwaysBulletTakes

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

Bradley Wiggins

WifeThinkEatBecauseGetStuff

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Bryant H. McGill

ForgettingRememberingWithoutTake

My sons have such a deep access to my heart.

Austin Peck

HeartDeepAccessSons

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Ashton Kutcher

GoodEasyBadBecomeAwaySomebody

Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Scott Turow

PeopleBelieveLawyersGoodnessKind

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