Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.
– Mary Jo Putney
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- Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,- Kirkland said. – Mary Jo Putney
- Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. – John Updike
- In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, ‘Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed’. – Paul Johnson
- A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. – Edward Abbey
- If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re pissing on the present. – Malachy McCourt
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn’t war the most demented activity ever invented? – Mary Pat Kelly
- She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan. – Amanda Quick
- Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover – Chloe Neill
- Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans – Dean Cavanagh
- For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end. – Marmaduke William Pickthall
- There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind. – HL Mencken
- Everything that can be invented has been invented. – Charles H Duell
- The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it. – James Patterson
- The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. – Larry Herzberg
- Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys’ game. – William Gibson
- Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. – Stephen King
- We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding. – Deb Caletti
- Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation. – Victor Shamas
- Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. – Chris Bradford
- Memory is the binding foam of our mental life. – Abhijit Naskar
- Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- Duress impacts relationships in one of two ways. It either tears people apart… binding them tightly in a common objective. – Emily Thorne
- we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. – Alan Chadwick
- Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you’ll be set free forever. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- I fall into him like one would fall into a dream, ready to submit to your subconscious’s inner most desires and your deepest fears. – Stephanie Binding
- Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding. – Patrick Ness
- White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision. – Jennifer Lynch
- Women are binding and men are commanding. – Debasish Mridha
- Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men,you will know what that means. – Rudolf C Binding
- A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. – Nido Qubein
- Only by binding together as a single force will we become strong and unconquerable – tepee
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it. – Steven Pinker
- Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy. – Omar El Akkad
- Indeed, the only cause of their [Rome] perishing was that they chose for their protectors gods condemned to perish. – Augustine of Hippo
- Do you know what it’s like to be condemned to love? – Sergei Lukyanenko
- You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious. – Joel Osteen
- Aspirations; be careful with those, if noble they will emancipate you, if corrupt you will be condemned – Rohit Omar
- What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. – Aberjhani
- Our nation grew strong in an era when moral standards were emphasized, and it will grow weak when we condone that which we once condemned. – Billy Graham
- In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king. – Michel Foucault