Lao Tzu Quotes

Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Will
  • Two
  • Drink

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • Action
  • Beginning

• Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Friendship
  • Most
  • Liking

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Strong

• You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God - the blood of Christ itself - does not undo the past.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Suicide
  • Educated

• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Stage
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Leader
  • Gentle