Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight!
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary characters. Among microorganisms the most striking example of inheritable and specific alterations in cell structure and function that can be experimentally induced and are reproducible under well defined and adequately controlled conditions is the transformation of specific types of Pneumococcus.
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.