Chinese Quotations | Page 9

The fact that the Chinese currency is pegged to the dollar helps eliminate the inflationary effect on goods from China, ... The U.S., however, doesn't see that benefit from its other trading partners.

The exhibition faithfully reflects the glorious path of the Chinese people's heroic fight against Japanese aggressors, ... They are vivid teaching materials for education in patriotism among the people, especially the young people.

The executives were asking me if this political movement will affect China's way of doing business. The Chinese immediately reassured us that it wouldn't.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a �10 trillion E.U., not a �1.5 trillion Britain.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

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I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Scientists have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is life after death -- though they say it's virtually impossible to get decent Chinese food.

New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn't even fluent in English.

John McCain turned 72 years old last Friday, but the Chinese are making him a birth certificate that says he's only 33 and then he'll be ready to go.

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.

In the news, Chinese president Hu Jintao says that now that Barack Obama has been elected, he is looking forward to taking the relationship between China and the U.S. to the next level. That's what he said. Yeah. Then he said, 'Who knows, maybe we'll even go all the way.'

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

We should push the Chinese culture to the world and make it a positive factor in deepening understanding, friendship and cooperation with the rest of the world.

We should learn from him his inflexible spirit of always sticking to the path of catering to the taste and interests of the Chinese nation and the common people.

We call upon our Chinese leaders to give us democracy.

We call on the Chinese government and Yahoo to provide a full explanation of the circumstances that led the company to provide account holder information,

When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.

With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anybody who was not Caucasian. It would (have been) tough enough to even have her in the same room with a black man or a Chinese guy. Those things are all changed today.

We visited before Chinese New Year and ... (an official) informed us there were no cases of H5N1.

Though domestic demand waned and imports somehow slackened accordingly, due largely to macro economic control, in the first half of the year, it is totally wrong to consider the Chinese Government stepped in foreign trade with administrative instruments.

Though domestic demand waned and imports slackened in the first half, due largely to macro-economic controls, it is totally wrong to consider the Chinese Government influenced foreign trade with administrative instruments.

We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.

We commemorate the grand victory to remember history and past,cherish peach and explore future, ... As China is experiencing a unprecedented moment for development, we should carry forward the wartime spirit to march for the revitalization of the Chinese nation.

We will encourage more Chinese TV stations to get involved in the Olympic signal production to cover more sports.

We will employ more foreign coaches, technicians, nutritionists and other experts to help Chinese athletes.

We will continue to consult with the Chinese government to find a solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade.

This will be a grand occasion because it will create a two-way street with Peking University so that students can study there and learn not only Chinese language, but also China's politics, culture and history, so that when they come back to the United States, they will be able to represent China's point of view much better.

This whole process is illegal and ridiculous. According to Chinese law, there are no regulations that allow resuming an investigation after a criminal ruling.

There has been more aggressive rhetoric from the U.S., but rhetoric is not going to make the Chinese move faster. They're on the correct path with a gradual strengthening of the yuan. Gradual is the key word.

There has been great improvement in China's human rights situation, but the U.S. report did not recognize China's achievements. The U.S. reports on 190 countries, but does not talk about the bad situation in the U.S., so the Chinese government feels it is necessary to complete the picture.

There is actually some common ground, ... All three of us are facing real threats from Chinese trading policies.

There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.

We keep waiting for (the Chinese) to break through. Maybe they're waiting for surprising us at the 2008 Olympics. We've got to keep an eye on the Chinese swimmers.

We thought it was the right time to figure out where the Chinese are headed on this issue and other issues, like intellectual property and port security.

We're not just talking about Hawaiians. The Chinese brought their medicines, and many Chinese herbal shops are found in Chinatown.

We were tired, really tired. This competition was so close after the Olympic Games. Although we were second, we're very happy to see two Chinese couples in first and second.

You have Google, we have Baidu. You have Twitter, we have Weibo. You have Facebook, we have Renren. You have YouTube, we have Youku and Tudou. The Chinese government blocked every single international Web 2.0 service, and we Chinese copycat every one.

This year we will make sure all Chinese PC makers install licensed software prior to sale.

This time, in violation of international law and practice, the U.S. plane bumped into our plane, invaded Chinese territorial air space and landed at our airport,

To resolve the Taiwan issue and achieve the final reunification of the motherland is the common aspiration of all Chinese at home and abroad.

We are seeing things like the Chinese and Brazilian governments actively backing Linux as their key operating system environment. We will work to provide the right servers, tools, expertise, and training to get our business partners on line and moving ahead with new products, based in this case on Red Hat Linux.

We believe information is power. We also believe the Internet is a positive force in China. It has revolutionized information access, helps create open societies and helps accelerate the gradual evolution toward a more outward-looking Chinese society.

To the extent that China succeeds in building its capital markets, it will increase the size of the Chinese economy and the world economy as well.

Without the resources of the mainland, Taiwan cannot go far. Let us work together for prosperity for the whole nation and let us join forces ... to push forward the economic miracle of the Chinese nation.

Yet Japanese leaders are worshipping these war criminals that harmed so many Chinese people. What are they thinking? Are they even thinking that they are hurting the feelings of so many people of Asia?

There are rumors that Boeing could announce a $5 billion Chinese order as early as tomorrow and, because of that speculation, the call options have become very active.

The quickest way to end up with takeout food that's not as healthy is to not put any advance thought into meals. I don't mean to knock takeout -- I like eating out as much as the next person; I enjoy a pizza or takeout Chinese or Indian food. But most fast foods are cooked with lots of fat and salt; that's why they taste great. It's not a good way to eat every day, economically, and it's not the healthiest way to eat every day.

This will have a big impact on Chinese banks.

There is rapid development going on, ... we would like the Chinese to move even faster.

The opening ceremony is a crucial part of the Olympic Games. The success of a high-level Olympic Games with distinguishing features depends on the level of the opening ceremony. The 1.3 billion Chinese people are full of aspirations for the Olympic Games, and they have very high expectations for the opening ceremony. For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.

The players want to take the game to a new audience and Chinese fans want to see world-class stars in action, so it's a perfect match.

There are a number of different reasons why. The main one is that Chinese telecommunications companies don't have enough bandwidth to interact with the outside world.

There are already Chinese software companies, operating in China; they are fast learners ... If there will be a large software company emerging in Asia, it is likely to emerge in China first.

We were sure the case of Shi Tao, who was jailed for 10 years last April on the basis of Yahoo-supplied data, was not the only one. Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

Without immigrants, we never would've built this place. There were about 100 Japanese here that raised crops of lettuce and peas. The railroad companies brought in migrant workers. The Chinese and Native Americans built the railroads, and a lot were Irish, German or some other nationality.

Without enough consumption ability and demand, most of the 1.3billion Chinese would only be potential consumers. A lack of market demand will make it difficult to implement China's independent innovation strategy.

Without enough consumption ability and demand, most of the 1.3 billion Chinese would only be potential consumers. A lack of market demand will make it difficult to implement China's independent innovation strategy.

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don't talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds of relationships more appealing.

We have made quite clear that we look to the Chinese to take a positive and constructive attitude at these meetings.

We will have to see what the Chinese have heard most recently from the DPRK side. Perhaps they have very fresh news we have to find out.

We welcome foreign oil investments, no matter they are from Chinese companies, European companies or US companies.

We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.

Everywhere the Chinese go in the developing world, they go with a lot of development money.

firmly opposed to any attempt to split Chinese territory and sovereignty.

First and foremost it's the size, the market cap of these Chinese companies. The magic number here in Singapore is $300 million (US$185 million). If the market cap is lower than that, most funds will usually stay away.

Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission in China. Since the setting up of Nokia Ventures Organization Asia in Shanghai in 2003, NVO Asia has not only contributed to Nokia's renewal but also benefited the local partners in the Chinese mobile ecosystem. Nokia's role as a founding partner of Finland - China Innovation Center further demonstrated our commitment in promoting technological and innovation cooperation between the two nations.

But the other factor is that we have indications that Chinese demand for platinum is recovering despite prices being stable between $845 and $880.

But on the other hand, we all know that China has a very bad record on human rights, and we are afraid that the Chinese authorities are going to interpret this decision as their victory for the past policies. I think the Chinese government is going to do that.

But look at Angola: The Chinese spent a lot of money to get in there, but they are among many other companies. It is a much bigger game.

Both the U.S. and Chinese sides noted that our cooperation on this issue reflects strengthened U.S.-China relations and the desire of leaders on both sides to continue to deepen and expand our relationship.

Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward some ideas,

The government must investigate the allegations of corruption and eliminate the scourge in Chinese soccer. If they don't then it will kill football in China and all the efforts we are making ... will go to naught.

The government's sole concern is to maintain its unchallenged grip on power at the cost of smothering the Chinese people's fundamental rights and freedoms.

The government's role is necessary for big deals; foreign parties are monopolies while Chinese parties are diversified and do not have significant bargaining power.

We see the potential for a production vehicle with tremendous flexibility, which is a real alternative to Chinese hamster ovaries, the current industry standard. We have set ourselves a target of 25% of all new proteins and monoclonal antibodies. For anything in development and reaching the market between 2015 and 2020, we want 25% of the production platform to be PER.C6.

We seek to regulate, not control, the Internet. If an American website censors or deletes harmful information posted by an Internet user, this is considered normal. But when a Chinese website does so, it is considered abnormal and criticized. I think this is not fair and is a form of double standard.

We're the sole remaining superpower, the only country that's sent people to the moon. If the Chinese sent people to the moon they'd take us down a notch.

You are the holding action against the Americans until the Chinese come to our aid,

You can't be competitive on consumer scales if you don't take advantage of Chinese manufacturing.