Lao Tzu Quotes

Excellent conquerors do not engage.

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• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Door
  • Raven

• Okay, that's definitely enough hype.

  

  Larry Wall

• 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

• The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

  

  James Lovegrove

• I figure it's almost like a balance. We're eating these wonderful collard greens and turnip greens which are so medicinally good for you and, OK, so what if it has a little ham hock in it?

  

  Paula Deen
  • Good
  • Balance

• I worry too much.

  

  Joe Regalbuto
  • Worry

• We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Live
  • Movie
  • Greatness

• It must be awful, being a homophobe.

  

  Charlie Brooker

• One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I can't take a traditional yoga class or anything. I'll just lay down and take a nap on the mat.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Yoga

• Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

  

  Don Cooper
  • Good
  • Real

• It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • Law
  • Advice

• The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

  

  Edward Norton

• It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Art
  • History

• Don’t come to Jesus and try to be intellectually stimulating to Him. There’s nothing you could say that would cause Him to respond, “Wow, that’s a neat insight!” You may as well abort all attempts to be cerebral with Jesus; He simply doesn’t try to engage us at that level. Just come and love Him. He’s looking for heartfelt sincerity, for visceral passion, for authentic relationship.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Jesus

• Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

  

  Melissa Bank
  • Character
  • Book
  • Friend

• The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Success

• There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Remember
  • Fall

• Excellent conquerors do not engage.

  

  Lao Tzu
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