Lao Tzu Quotes

To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

Lao Tzu

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• Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Why
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Nice

• I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Christian

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Cool
  • Rock
  • Rocks

• In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Respect
  • Questions
  • Iraq

• Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Character

• Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Process
  • Slavery
  • Dulling

• We were due for this win. This team knew we needed a win, and every player needed to do something to contribute to the win.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Team
  • Player
  • Win

• I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Principles
  • Prefer
  • Prejudices

• I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, your head like the golden rod, and we will go sailing away from here to the beautiful Land Of Nod.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Beautiful
  • Sailing
  • Dear

• When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Work
  • Long
  • Kids

• I think to suggest that somehow Muslims aren't welcome in the USA, to suggest somehow that being a Muslim is incompatible with being western, unintentionally plays into the hand of Daesh and so-called Isis.

  

  Sadiq Khan
  • Hand

• To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily.

  

  W. A. Mathieu
  • Body
  • Dangerous
  • Vulnerable

• Barack Obama has exhibited sympathy, if not for the terrorists, then certainly for the Islamic supremacists.

  

  Frank Gaffney
  • Islamic
  • Terrorist
  • Barack

• People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Sports
  • Performance

• Words have power? That sounds like you’re into some Harry Potter juju.

  

  Chloe Neill
  • Power
  • Words
  • Sounds

• To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Delight
  • Conquest
  • Slaughter