Hu Shih Quotes

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Hu Shih

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: December 17, 1891 - February 24, 1962

Topics

ChristianDesireTrueJapaneseEven

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Matthew McConaughey

LifeLife Is ACommasSeriesPeriods

You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry; we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.

Shiv Nadar

WorldComputersYouPersonalFirst

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Tom G. Palmer

ChoicesBelieveRightReasonNormal

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

Robert Wilson

New YorkWorldNewAwarenessGoing

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

Martin Short

DoneImprovThingsWholeMovieLots

YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

Jason Blum

PeopleNewWillYouTubeAlwaysUp

In this business, you have so little control over things, but one of the things you can control is who you work with.

Jon Tenney

WorkBusinessControlYouOverWho

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.

Conrad Hilton

OpportunityChildrenMistakesCharity

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society.

Clint Smith

SocietyActionMoreToolUsClear

And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

Bruce Catton

DownTrainSteelMeetWillGoing

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Seth Low

GratitudeDayPeopleThoughtsForget

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

Nicole Kidman

CharacterSchoolBabyAngelSheep

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