English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Hu Shih Quotes

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

Hu Shih

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Neil Gaiman quote: "There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it...."
There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud. Neil Gaiman
Bob Edwards quote: "I wanted to be one of the voices in the box."
I wanted to be one of the voices in the box. Bob Edwards
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have..."
The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography. Chuck Palahniuk
Chelsea Handler quote: "My father has a high opinion of his opinion"
My father has a high opinion of his opinion Chelsea Handler
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow..."
that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time. Rabindranath Tagore
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near. Andre Gide
Loretta folded her arms. She felt like a heroine in a movie, confronted by a jealous husband in a kitchen while outside the camera is aching to draw back and show a wonderland of adventures waiting for her—long, frantic rides on trains, landscapes of wounded soldiers, a lovely white desert across which a camel caravan draped voluptuously in veils moves slowly with a kind of mincing melancholy, the steamy jungles of India opening before British officers in white, young officers, the mysteries... Joyce Carol Oates
Elia Kazan quote: "The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be..."
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. Elia Kazan
Plutarch quote: "Neither blame or praise yourself."
Neither blame or praise yourself. Plutarch
I still lie awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, that wasn't done to stop 9/11. To the 9/11 families, I said, you deserve better from your entire government. All of us. George Tenet
William Blake quote: "It is right it should be so:Man was made for joy and woe;And..."
It is right it should be so:Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly knowThrough the world we safely go. William Blake
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God. Wendell Berry
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. Orson Scott Card
A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. George Santayana
Clea Duvall quote: "I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've..."
I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set. Clea Duvall