Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

I voted for you during your last election.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Women hold up half the sky.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

The earth laughs in flowers.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.