Lao Tzu Quotes

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.

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• No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Alone
  • Dance
  • End

• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mad

• People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Logical

• Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Day
  • Golf

• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Want
  • Loved
  • Neighbor

• I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Runner

• You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Reality
  • Eyes

• I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.

  

  Lorin Maazel

• But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Time
  • Wisdom

• Moral solipsism.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Moral

• Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Life

• When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

• I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • People
  • Business
  • Parents

• It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Song
  • Reality

• I want to die at my desk.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Die

• You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Strong

• But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Reason
  • Basketball
  • Numbers

• I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story — fake and fraud that it is.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • Decision
  • Fake

• What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Praise
  • Recognition

• What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Uprooted
  • Pulled Out