Lao Tzu Quotes
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.
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You are no longer paid just for the hours that you put in, but for what you put into those hours.
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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
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I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.
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He’d been her one taste of the forbidden fruit. A slow coil of anger began to burn deep inside him. Nobody ever asked the damned fruit if it wanted to be forbidden.
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Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
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Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.
