Lao Tzu Quotes
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!Lao Tzu
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
C. S. Forester -
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel -
First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
Adam McKay -
When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
Valerie Plame -
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe -
I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
Ted Baillieu
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Samuel Butler -
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells -
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke -
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
Dan Gilbert -
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
Said Nursi -
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
J. Cole -
I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
Natalie Babbitt -
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale -
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
Famke Janssen -
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
Larry Wall
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale -
The women of this country ought be enlightened in regard to the laws under which they live, that they may no longer publish their degradation by declaring themselves satisfied with their present position, nor their ignorance, by asserting that they have all the rights they want.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
If you fall in love, it's because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet.
Kristen Stewart -
Comments on The Lifted Veil with a motto for it used in the 'Cabinet Edition' of her works (1878), in a letter to John Blackwood (28 February 1873), published in George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (1885), Vol. 4
George Eliot -
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
Lao Tzu