Best 421 quotes in «china quotes» category

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.

In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

In the trade pact you know that was recently agreed to, I said you have to talk about devaluation. Because that's been their [China] single greatest asset in terms of what they are doing to us.

I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

I understand China, and I understand the Chinese mind. I understand where they're coming from. They are not our friend.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

I've been to Japan but I've never been to China, I'd love to go to China. I don't know, I like to go to places that are remote. So, I think I'd like to do that more. And just sort of also explore not having a structured work life someday, to have more free time to sort of see what happens.

I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

I will not date a woman from China, because that is a big red flag.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing.

I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean really fast - we are going to tax your products 25%.

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Mexico is the new China.

Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be free.

Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Of what use would it be to you, sir, to become King of China on condition that you forgot what you have been? Would it not be the same as if God, at the same time he destroyed you, created a King in China?

Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

Oh, China. How I have missed you.' 'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.

None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were reporting how marvelously Chinese society was working. We know so little [about what happens in China].

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh - meets America's president. It's like President "Who?" meeting President "Huh?

Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.