Lin Yutang Quotes

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976

Topics

KindnessGoodTodaySimpleWords

I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

Andy Grammer

WaitingWavesThinkWaveYouOut

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

Simon Mainwaring

MorningNightComputersYouSee

I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.

Tom Paulin

EducationChildrenSchoolThreeUs

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

Rob Lowe

LovedLongCreationBoyBecomeTop

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Russell Crowe

Not KnowingYouWantKnowingFilm

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

Michael Korda

LifeStarsWriteGetMemoirMovie

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

Dexter Holland

YourselfThinkingRockPunkMeans

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

I AmBelieveI BelieveI Believe That

This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.

Sun Yat-sen

SurviveNationalismCountryTreasure

I definitely believe our coaches are now leading more and learning more. They are hungry in terms of getting the athletes to improve. I believe it's now more mental than anything else, and I'd like to assist in that area.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

LearningBelieveNowI BelieveMore

A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.

Twinkle Khanna

WomanWiseHandsMouthAnythingHer

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Northrop Frye

AdvertisingFlatteryThreatsMixture

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