Lao Tzu Quotes

The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

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• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Kids
  • Bridge
  • Transition

• A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Sometimes

• I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Small
  • Year
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• I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Sitcom

• Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Talent
  • Possess
  • Anxious

• Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Lawlessness

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Way
  • Care

• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Eyes
  • Moon
  • Fierce

• There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Life
  • Die

• The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • True
  • Faith
  • Church

• For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • World

• What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Cooperation

• Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Sorrow
  • Master

• Inside, it was very dark but I am, if not exactly a master, then definitely an apprentice in the secret arts. And as such I laugh in the face of darkness.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Laugh
  • Darkness
  • Master

• I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Magic
  • Facts
  • Alive

• When a woman wears a low-cut gown, what does she expect you to do: look or not look?

  

  William Feather
  • Looks
  • Cutting
  • Doe

• Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

  

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict
  • Power
  • Human
  • Electricity

• The Master views the parts with compassion, because he understands the whole. His constant practice is humility. He doesn't glitter like a jewel but lets himself be shaped by the Tao, as rugged and common as a stone.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Master
  • Jewel