Lao Tzu Quotes

He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

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• Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Love
  • Wonderful
  • Love Is

• Solutions are complex, and I continue to worry that Trump didn't fully appreciate the complexity of what's going on. Consequently, I worry about whether he's going to make the problems a whole lot better... But I am a Republican, and we really should give the guy a chance to govern and hope he's successful.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Chance
  • Trump
  • Successful

• If it weren't for singing, I don't know what else I would do with myself.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Singing

• An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • May
  • Run
  • Chicken

• Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • World
  • Compromise

• I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Children

• Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Act
  • Govern

• You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Life
  • Why
  • Jump

• Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Nature

• I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

  

  Jean Craighead George

• It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

  

  Ty Simpkins
  • Different
  • Real
  • Weird

• Acting is a mysterious process.

  

  Bertie Carvel
  • Mysterious

• Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead

• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • God
  • Men
  • Success

• Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

  

  James Salter
  • Book
  • Past
  • Earth

• The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has remained remarkably consistent throughout the history of this building type.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Character
  • History
  • Style

• At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting fires. It's a long day, and it's a lot of responsibility, and it can be a little bewildering sometimes with the schedule. But, you know, it's a job, and they pay me well to do a job.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Long
  • Job
  • Reading

• The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

  

  Confucius
  • Matters
  • Concerns
  • Entrusted

• There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Water
  • Miracle
  • Protection

• I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Govern
  • Regards
  • Entrusted