Beijing House Quotes

NO DIVINE BOVINE ! The clumsy creature currently inhabiting the White House is a distinctly dangerous animal. Part boneheaded raging bully, part dastardly coward showing signs of advanced stage mad cow disease. Neither of good pedigree nor useful breeding stock, there is essentially very little of substance between the T (bone) and the RUMP, except of course for an abundance of methane and bullshit. It's high time brave matadors for you to enter the bullring, with nimble step and fleet of foot. Take good aim and bring down this marauding beast once and for all. Slay public enemy number one and we will salute you forever. A louder cheer you will not hear from Madrid to Mexico City, from Beijing to Brussels, from London to Lahore, from Toronto to Tehran and ten thousand cities in between. ~ Alex Morritt

Stately and commanding, the house I found on Sacramento Street, in Lower Pacific Heights, was an architectural jewel; tour buses drove down the street several times a day and the guides pointed out our Victorian "painted lady" not just for its curb appeal but also for its lucky survival of the earthquake. Meticulously renovated, the house had a layout that I was sure would work perfectly: a three-room suite on the lower level with a bathroom and laundry room for my mother, living space on the next level, and, on the top floor, bedrooms for Zoë and me. The master bedroom was large enough to double as my office. Moreover, it seemed symbolic that we should find a three-story nineteenth-century Victorian, whose original intention was to house multiple generations.

My mother couldn't have been more pleased. She started calling our experiment "our year in Provence." In the face of naysayers, I chose to embrace the reaction of a friend who was living in Beijing: "How Chinese of you!" she said upon hearing the news. When I told my mother, she was delighted. "What have the Chinese got on us?" she declared. And I agreed. The Chinese revere their elderly. If they could live happily with multiple generations under one roof, so could we. ~ Katie Hafner

The times today are too dangerous for the young and the smart to be not bothered. Know the truth. Remember, "We can deny the truth. But, we can't avoid it." We have been there; we have all been there. Ask a female friend who is fighting for a better pay scale, ask the father of an immigrant who is nervous about the future of his daughter, ask a gay friend who is fighting for the right to marry, ask an African-American friend who wants her younger brother to be unafraid and proud, ask a homeless worker in Bangladesh whose house just got swept by rising sea levels, ask a young child in Beijing who breathes an air polluted by fossil fuels, ask a child labor in India who works ten hours and twelve hours to get two square meals a day. And, when you ask, you will know. You will know why we need to take it personally. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home. ~ Evan Osnos

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is! ~ Bill Maher

Beijing would indeed consider vetoing any American effort to sanction Iran at the Security Council. ~ Li Zhaoxing

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows! ~ Lee Hsien Loong

Beijing? Freedom? Oil and water. ~ Victor Robert Lee

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air. ~ Evan Osnos

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

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years. ~ Bradley Wiggins

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish. ~ Alicia Sacramone

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.' ~ Ryan Hall

The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. ~ Olivia Newton-John

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. ~ Alexander Haig

I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.
-Greg House ~ House

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. ~ Chen Shui-bian

Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that have their own institutions. We did not change it in the sense that we said this has to end, but there was a U.N. vote that transferred the legitimacy of China from Taiwan to Beijing. Beijing was recognized as the government of all of China. Then, under President Carter, we followed what the U.N. had already done eight years earlier. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

I teach you to lie, cheat, and steal, and as soon as my back's turned you wait in line?
-Greg House ~ House

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ~ Gaston Bachelard

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ~ Ryan Hall

When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act. ~ Zhang Xin

Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life. ~ Lu Xun

Air pollution is my biggest concern right now. Maybe because I live in Beijing, and in this city we have such severe challenges due to bad air quality. It has affected our daily lives and health. I do not go outdoors because of it. I desperately hope that we can improve the current situation. ~ Li Bingbing

Intelligence is a tenant in the house of wisdom.
Knowledge is a tenant in the house of nature.
Insight is a tenant in the house of understanding.
Wealth is a tenant in the house of risk.
Mastery is a tenant in the house of discipline.
Patience is a tenant in the house of virtue.
Tolerance is a tenant in the house of freedom.
Awareness is a tenant in the house of experience.
Rest is a tenant in the house of sleep.
Laughter is a tenant in the house of joy.
Hope is a tenant in the house of faith.
Contentment is a tenant in the house of peace.
Kindness is a tenant in the house of love.
Harmony is a tenant in the house of order.
Humility is a tenant in the house of honor.
Caution is a tenant in the house of prudence.
Speech is a tenant in the house of silence.
Certainty is a tenant in the house of conviction.
Expectation is a tenant in the house of desire.
Need is a tenant in the house of want.
Truth is a tenant in the house of reality.
Chance is a tenant in the house of fate.
Time is a tenant in the house of eternity.
Life is a tenant in the house of death.
Nature is a tenant in the house of God. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Establish a house,
even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, A HOUSE OF GOD.

D&C 88:119 ~ The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

Pain makes us make bad decisions. Fear or pain is almost as big of a motivator. ~ House

I live in China Beijing :) ~ Edward Ang

Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction ~ Tash Aw

I'm aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I'd ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I've glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I've sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house. ~ Rumi

I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley ~ House

There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature's God in America and China's Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good and orderly governance, and a unique cultural ethos (related to the Creator of the Universe in America and the Son of Heaven in China) is deeply rooted in both societies. Each concept is physically yet stealthily manifested in the architectural designs of the two capital cities, Beijing and Washington. ~ Patrick Mendis

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do. ~ Marina Abramovic

Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself. ~ Timothy Snyder

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame. ~ Jonathan Davis

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it. ~ Joyce Kilmer

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house ~ Barbara Bush

There is no house more beautiful than the house you happily live in! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. ~ Francis Wheen

I'm short-selling my house. I have more loans than I can sell the house for. The house will not go into foreclosure. It will be a short sale. I can't afford the house as I once could. ~ Robert A. Schuller

I was going to do a big radio show, and I said to my driver, 'Radio can wait, take me to the Full House house.' It literally was a drive-by. I photobombed the Full House house yesterday. I took like 20 pictures because I thought I didn't look good in any of these - you can't see the house! You gotta really show that that's the house! ~ Bob Saget

Some guys run their house. Some guys run around their house. I'm a guy who runs my house! ~ Sam Cassell

If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House? ~ Charles Krauthammer

Mao had decided to make the city his new capital, and he had its name changed from Peking to Beijing. ~ Anchee Min

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. ~ Oscar Wilde

Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in the square an individual felt like a speck of dust. ~ Sylvia Vetta

Neither of us had lived in a house since we were kids; apartments, it turns out, are very different things, psychologically. Houses - especially old and creaky houses - are individuals, somehow; their fronts are faces, their closets are pants pockets. ~ Ben Dolnick

A house turn into a home only when you put your soul in it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house! ~ Edward Bond

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free. ~ Penelope Cruz

There is no house like the house of belonging. ~ David Whyte

I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest. ~ Zhang Xin

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from. ~ Jesse Jackson

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ~ Ma Jian

Embrace the realization, that life is a dance, sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow. ~ Toni House

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House. ~ Hedy Lamarr

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left. ~ George Vecsey

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House. ~ Bob Hope

I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater. ~ Steve Hely

Those who think of their house as only a 'machine to live in' should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who also lived in a house, but a house that embodied a cosmology. ~ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house. ~ Steven Gaines

The body is the soul's house. Shouldn't we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn't fall into ruin? ~ Philo

The White House is now essentially a TV performance. ~ Edmund Snow Carpenter

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is what remains of the house. One is still prone to think of a house as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it. ~ David Markson

I'll go with the guy with one house. The guy with one house is scared about losing his house. ~ Chris Rock

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized, ~ Luciano Pavarotti

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better. ~ Lou Holtz

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. ~ Florence Nightingale

If this universe is the House of God, then I must say it is quite a dark house despite several hundred billion suns! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In Beijing, we talk about air purifiers the way that teenage boys talk about cars. ~ Evan Osnos

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends? ~ John Selden

I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. ~ Winston Churchill

What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream? ~ Julius Shulman

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan. ~ Kohei Uchimura

We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows ... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again ... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies. ~ Danny Boyle

Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their minds. ~ House

Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog? ~ Rush Limbaugh

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House. ~ Gwen Ifill

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. ~ Irwin Shaw

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else. ~ Robert Cormier

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. ~ Ma Jian

Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat. ~ Evan Osnos

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house. ~ Don Cooper

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty. ~ Johnny Carson

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit. ~ Wilkie Collins

You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally, ~ Barack Obama

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house. ~ Casey Nicholaw

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart. ~ Gladys Taber

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House. ~ Al Sharpton

For a single path leads to the house of Hades. ~ Aeschylus

Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing. ~ David Burge

Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin! ~ Ed Crane

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality. ~ Gail Sheehy

My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. ~ Rajneesh

If God ever chooses a house to live on earth, it will be the House of Science, not the House of Religion! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ~ Rick Riordan

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs. ~ William Joyce

I like the House. The House is where you can effect the most change. It's such a fast-moving dynamic body compared to the Senate. ~ Steve Scalise