Ma Long Quotes
Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.
The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.
His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.
How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?
The real hell of this, " he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.
It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.
You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.
Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance is given.
Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.
With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.
It's funny how you can know a person, think of him as your closest friend, and still never gain access to the secret chambers in his heart.
Perhaps the ache of homesickness was a fair price to pay for having so many good people in her life.
Now we have travelled a hundred million steps from the Datum, we are finding life systems entirely unlike our own - and yet we still find war. Must it always be so?
Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more
I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back
Damn straight" said Connor. " So yeah, I look at you and I could suck start a leaf blower, or drill a Kevin-shaped body hole into the wall, like a cartoon.
You like it in jail?""It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?
You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?
You like it in jail?''It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?
One can be interested in both fashion and politics, don't you think? They so often go hand in hand. Appearances, saying the right words, making people like you...
The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?
Straight women love a feminine sensibility in a man, but that love only goes up to, and unfortunately does not quite pass, the fact of his being an actual woman.
A leader’s attitude tells how often he will be the winner
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him.
What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?
Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.
Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?
Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.
A fresh bottle of Jack waited on the end table, but for the first time in weeks I didn’t feel the need to pour a nightcap. The music was better.
Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.
Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.
Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.
The Crazy feeling builds and builds. It never stops, it never ends, there is no relief.
That’s the problem with the world, ” he said. “You save it today, and tomorrow it’s gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It’s like a Kardashian.
Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.
Resist the short term temptation of procrastination
Pointing a gun at a strong-minded person is just as inconvenient as wearing a bifocal. There are two realities side-by-side
They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.
...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.
Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential
Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.
For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.
The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.