Lao Tzu Quotes

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• 'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Free
  • Thought
  • Slaves

• Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Development

• For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Job
  • Celebrity
  • Fame

• I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Forever

• I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Sleep
  • Changes

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Years
  • Said
  • Being

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Great
  • Power
  • Science

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Experience
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  

  Boris Pasternak
  • People
  • Art
  • Words

• I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Nature
  • Mad

• I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • People
  • Mind

• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fish