Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a lot of pressure on Chinese manufacturers.

Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

Ultimately what they are planning is a Chinese space station in about 2008 or so. To do that they will need to learn about how to survive on longer missions.

These discussions are headed in the right direction, and we remain hopeful that the Chinese government will translate these principles into concrete action.

These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision introduced into the Chinese Constitution in March 2004.

The words 'stakeholder' upgraded China's status in foreign relations and the global system. The only uncertainty in Chinese circles is whether it represents the ideas of the administration. Does the key term 'stakeholder' also represent the ideas of Secretary (of State Condoleezza) Rice, or the thinking of the President himself?

The risk of investing in Chinese contemporary oil paintings is low, since the cost is comparatively low.

The rise of the Chinese yards is definitely a risk factor for Korean shipbuilders. Competition is increasing.

The rights of the returned Chinese should be well protected, as they make a vital contribution to China's modernization.

There won't be surprises on the upside. The market will be resilient, though profit-taking will continue on Chinese equities.

Too many Americans look at the Chinese dragon and see only sharp teeth and scales, and too many Chinese look at the American eagle and see only fierce eyes and strong claws.

What's going on is good because here is a Chinese company where the Chinese senior management is being exposed to Singapore law. It's a lesson for Chinese companies that are listed here that Singapore won't shy away from putting you in trial.

Hu Jintao

We will never forget the American Flying Tigers who fought shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese military and opened up, at the risk of their lives, the Hump Route to deliver strategic supplies to China,

We wish to warn the Chinese government and its oil companies to steer well clear of the Niger Delta. Chinese citizens found in oil installations will be treated as thieves. The Chinese government by investing in stolen crude places its citizens in our line of fire.

Brian Mitchell

We are cementing relationships we already had with Chinese industry, which is demonstrating a willingness to work with U.S. corporations. They're more open and cognizant of some of the important issues, like intellectual property.

The situation is not hopeless. The Chinese government is determined to take measures and has started taking measures,

Michael Jennings

The talks are still ongoing with the Chinese authorities.

Rick Riordan

Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?

Pico Iyer

As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

Pico Iyer

When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

Robert Fortune

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Rod Stewart

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

Robert Trout

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Warren Buffett

I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

Salvador Dali

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

Salman Rushdie

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Salman Rushdie

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Jeff Smith

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Jesse Helms

I do not intend to allow the Senate to rubber-stamp the president's plan to reward the Chinese Communists.

Jack Valenti

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Gary Becker

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Will Rogers

Gentlemen, you have just been listening to that Chinese sage, On Too long