logo

Quotes About Chinese

Do you think the Chinese think twice about hiring a hacker with a mohawk or a tattooed face? No.
~ John McAfee
Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.
~ George Osborne
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
~ Simon Hoggart
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
~ Jung Chang
The growing collaboration between Punjab and Chinese companies is a source of extension in economic cooperation between Pakistan and China.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.
~ Denis Kearney
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.
~ Stephane Hessel
I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens.
~ Liu Yang
Through art alone, the Mexica said, can human beings approach the real. Cut short by Cortés, Mexica philosophy did not have the chance to reach as far as Greek or Chinese philosophy. But surviving testimony intimates that it was well on its way.
~ Charles C. Mann
The 2008 financial crisis only deepened Chinese skepticism that free-flowing capital and floating exchange rates work swimmingly in a modern economy.
~ Charles Wheelan
We can go into the Chinese market, develop the engine, new models of cars. Proton can compete. What is the point of giving the company to foreigners? It will revert to the same situation where foreigners just assemble their cars here. We learn nothing.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
~ Erica Jong
Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that a more refined Chinese moon might brush the countryside. In the aloof washes of moonlight no form seemed to stir.
~ Tom Robbins
The sky is as gruff as a Chinese waiter. It keeps slamming the silverware against the horizon.
~ Tom Robbins
According to Chinese tradition, the first cup of tea was brewed by the emperor Shen Nung, whose reign is traditionally dated to 2737–2697 BCE.
~ Tom Standage
Yes. Japan will overrun us," the scholar said. "But we will turn them into Chinese. Give us five hundred years. You wait.
~ Kiana Davenport
So repression is not the sole reason why the Chinese middle classes are basically calm. Most of them accept an implicit social contract between the Chinese people and the Chinese government. As long as the Chinese government continues to deliver economic growth (with improvements in living conditions, including better environmental living conditions) and social and political stability, the Chinese people will accept the rule of the CCP.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
Two thousand years of Chinese history have created a strategic culture that advises against fighting unnecessary wars in distant places. The likelihood therefore is that, while China's strategic weight and influence in the world will grow significantly, it will not behave as an aggressive and belligerent military power.
~ Kishore Mahbubani
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
~ John F. Kennedy
The waves are Chinese, but the earth is an Indian thing.
~ Jack Kerouac
Bull had a sentimental streak about the old days in America, especially 1910, when you could get morphine in a drugstore without prescription and Chinese smoked opium.
~ Jack Kerouac
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.
~ Donnie Yen
There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.
~ Dalai Lama