Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Na

I want to go to Shenzhen or somewhere down south to work as a waitress or in a factory. I don't want to do what my mom does. Life's too tough as a Chinese farmer.

I want to keep manufacturing here because I want people to be safe wearing safety glasses. With the Chinese imports, some of their products are just as good as ours and some are inferior, and you never know which you're going to get.

David Carradine

It turned out that this stuff that the Chinese guys do is not really kung fu. It's very different and I did need to learn how to do that.

It will be good for Chinese tennis. In the near future, I think we could be better, make progress, improve a lot.

The vast majority of Chinese air-to-air missile sales are to its own government, and those that are exported have little effect on the overall market. Japan is forbidden to export weapons and Taiwan has yet to sell an air-to-air missile to a foreign customer.

Chuck Grassley

They are making it possible for a very close vote in the House of Representatives to be reversed, ... I'm not proposing that be done, but it could very easily happen... The Chinese government ought to make a clear decision-- Do they want to move forward or do they want these obstacles that put their relationships with other countries, including the United States, in jeopardy.

They will also look to the long term, over the horizon, to the future of U.S. and Chinese relations and what we hope that the relationship will look like.

The traditional superstition has put on the cloak of modern high technology, poisoning an increasing number of Chinese kids and youth.

I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Chiang Kai-shek

We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

This is where we showcase cultural holidays such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the Winter Solstice.

Dalai Lama

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

In the past, it's a window to raise funds for Chinese companies. And, in the future, it might also be itself a destination for Chinese money abroad.

In the minds of the Chinese people, this is unacceptable. That the United States, after doing this, still refuses to acknowledge responsibility and refuses to pay for the damages.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.

If your dreams are small enough to stay in the country, you'll still have to learn Chinese and creole.

Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Rebecca MacKinnon

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

How Chinese exports perform is largely driven by external demand rather than the exchange rate,

In effect, the Chinese government subsidizes exports by 40 percent.

In the heated discussion of the US-China relations within the United States in the first half of this year, US President Bush, State Secretary Rice and other high-ranking officials showed their sincerity and goodwill to respond to the Chinese side as they take the overall situation of the bilateral ties into consideration.

In the 1980s, Chinese companies tried to get out of the traditional, centrally planned economy and become market players. In the 1990s, many Chinese companies tried to restructure their company structure, to have ownership diversification, to go public domestically or internationally, and then to learn to set up new corporate governance. And after that, I think Chinese companies are looking more and more to the global competition.

Bret Bielema

I'll never forget opening up a fortune cookie at a Chinese restaurant on the very day that Fry offered me the job, ... It said, 'Choose a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.' It's turned out to be true.

Clearly the Chinese market is going to overwhelm everything else in Asia. In the last five, six, seven years, we have concentrated entirely on China.

Higher interest equals higher risks - the Chinese will need time to get used to the concept.

Chinese tourism was the factor that kept Hong Kong from recession,

Mark White

Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with somebody in Finland, the U.S. or Australia, but they are not doing that,

Chinese society has only two groups now: those with vested interests and those deprived of their interests.

Chinese public security has never issued such a warning for foreigners on the hotel issue... Chinese hotels are safe.

Chinese producers will remain competitive in a wide range of manufactured products for some time.

Chinese pharmaceutical companies are seeing more anti-dumping or anti-subsidy cases. The conflicts are spreading to some major exports.