Lao Tzu Quotes

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Job
  • Living

• My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Dad
  • Watch
  • Mindset

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Story
  • Example
  • Nest

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Evening

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

  

  Larry Page
  • Now
  • Over
  • Google

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Fun
  • Actor
  • Accents

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• I grew up in small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra - places like Akola, Betul, Wardha, Jhansi; I thought the rise of provincial India would be an interesting subject to tackle.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Small

• Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Time
  • Long
  • Space

• Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Believe
  • Job

• To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • God
  • Heart
  • True

• God has created you and be proud of it. Don't hide from your age. Don't lie about it. Don't be ashamed of it and don't let nobody make you feel ashamed because you're aging in the world. It's a privilege. God has blessed you. Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney, they'll never know what it's like to be 60. They'll never know that.

  

  Vanessa Bell Calloway
  • World
  • God
  • Age

• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Space
  • Worlds
  • Transient