Lao Tzu Quotes

The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

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• When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Young

• My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.

  

  Young Thug
  • Kids
  • Mom
  • Got

• I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Home
  • California

• Violent anger makes me physically ill.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Me
  • Anger
  • Violent

• I love my fans because they're smart, dude.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Smart

• Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.

  

  Alice Englert

• On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Character

• Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• What does Sullivan do? He points at people. Rub meat on actors and dogs will do the same thing.

  

  Fred Allen
  • People

• The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Justice
  • Jesus

• The content of many cutting-edge games is becoming more and more vivid, violent, and offensive to our most basic values.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Cutting
  • Games
  • Values

• Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

  

  Al Pacino
  • Violent
  • Shakespeare
  • Scarface

• Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Eyes
  • Baby
  • Sad

• She gave the most stirring speeches, ... and she was never afraid to ask for money. Once when I was speaking at a rally, she grabbed the mike and told me to be more forceful in my fund-raising pitch. The crowd loved it; I think we raised $90,000 that day.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Money
  • She
  • Speeches

• I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Beautiful
  • Wish
  • Wise

• Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Strong
  • Die
  • Question

• We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and democracy. But if things continue the way they are, I expect the situation to become more violent.

  

  Zainab al-Khawaja
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Fighting

• Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.

  

  Anne Bogart
  • Art
  • Choice
  • Violent

• The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think about. The constant shuttling of opinions is tiring, and the shuffling of papers across desks, the chopping of logic and the trimming of attitudes. There must, somewhere, be a simpler, more violent world.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Gold
  • Liberty
  • Authority

• At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Helping
  • Yearning
  • Ingenuity

• The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Violent
  • Forceful
  • Natural Causes