“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.” WorldCountryEarthPainForceCenturyIgnoranceCivilizationPureSucceedEnglandSeekingChinaChiefsConquerBrownVillageMediocrityDedicatedCigaretteAspireLeafsBullySalesmanAdvertisementsVictorianArchesRestfulDerby Author:Sinclair Lewis
“My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.” IfsMenFirstsTwoTogetherStuffBreakShotsEnglandWesternChinaGoing OutSoapHong KongDaytime Author:Scott Adkins
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly.” TryingLongCountryMovingAsksFashionWillingExcitingEnglandDareChinaCuriousFranceDesignerNew ThingsClientsEtiquetteWilling To Try Author:Michael Kors
“Elijah Muhammad teaches us the truth of God beautified the planet by separating everybody in different countries for themselves: Chinese in China, English in England, Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico, Ethiopians in Ethiopia, Arabians in Arabia, Egyptians in Egypt, and Americans took that country and stole it away so there's always going to be trouble and chaos.” DifferentCountryTeachTroublePlanetsEnglandChaosChinaChineseEgyptMuhammadArabiaSeparatingElijahPuerto RicoDifferent CountriesEthiopiaRicoTruth Of GodElijah Muhammad Author:Muhammad Ali
“To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.” ApproachTreatsEnglandHistoricalIsraelChinaRussiaFascinated Author:Hershel Shanks
“I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.” LooksDifferentWould BeImagineEnglandChinaListsShipsFlagsEncyclopediaDenmark Author:George R. R. Martin
“We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.” WayDiesBornLosesLaughingMajorsEnglandChinaThriveShoreMinorsMaineGuineaFinlandMoors Book:The Complete Poetry Source: The Complete Poetry
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.” Has BeensSpiritualPrayerSecretSourceEnglandMeetingsChinaMissionsTriumphMartyrdomNew EnglandAnswered PrayersMissions And PrayerPentecost Author:Samuel Marinus Zwemer
“When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.” MenMovingPrayerChristianityClaimsEnglandChinaMissionsMissionaryMissions And PrayerGreat MissionaryChristian MissionaryMissionary Life Author:Hudson Taylor
“Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.” WayMadeStatesTogetherDesireDifferencesUnitedPartyEffortAttitudeUnited StatesImpossibleCircumstancesUnderstoodEnglandAgreeChinaDespiteMade ItJapanUnfortunateMisunderstandingUnfortunate Circumstances Author:Hideki Tojo