Lao Tzu Quotes

Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

Lao Tzu

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• The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
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• Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.

  

  Tayari Jones
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• I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
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• The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

  

  Eric Fellner
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• It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

  

  Chief Joseph
  • Good
  • Heart
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• I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Life
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• I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bird

• I never use a piano stool. I always use a drum stool. Because I feel that when you're down there, you're playing in that way you're supposed to. I like to be above it.

  

  Jamie Cullum

• I always feel if I work hard, if I can practice 100%, then the results will come. Whether it's the first tournament, the third tournament, it's going to come.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
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• Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

  

  Chris Zylka

• It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

  

  Joseph Mulrey McIntyre
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• Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

  

  Brigitte Nielsen
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Baby

• Absentes tinnitu aurium præsentire sermones de se receptum est.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Choices

• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Firm
  • Modest

• I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

  

  David Starkey
  • Kings
  • Modest
  • Propositions

• A vocation is born to us all; happily most of us meet promptly our twin,--occupation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Born
  • Occupation
  • Vocation

• The ancient Egyptian mummification process involved, for instance, preserving all of a person’s organs except the brain—thought to be useless—which they scrambled with hooks into a custard and scooped out through the nose.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Organs
  • Mummification process

• Be merciful, moderate, and modest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Modest
  • Moderate
  • Merciful