Lao Tzu Quotes

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • High
  • Way
  • Bar

• After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • School
  • Money
  • Drama

• The apple of knowledge is not far from here. As soon as you've eaten it, you'll know as much as I do. But be careful not to make any mistakes: most of the apples hanging from that tree are enveloped in a thick skin. If you taste it, you will be brought low, beneath man; the inner part of the fruit will bring you up to the level of an angel.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Tree

• You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.

  

  Alan Dershowitz
  • People
  • Black

• I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• Slander was about liberals’ methods, Treason was about the political consequences of liberalism, and Godless is about the underlying mental disease that creates liberalism.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Political

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Work
  • Experience

• I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Girl
  • Confused
  • Expectation

• U.S. attorneys have taught me a lot over the years, and in the Southern district of Florida, they have been to me partners.

  

  Janet Reno

• We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

  

  Dick Van Patten

• I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.

  

  Lisa Madigan

• At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Home
  • She
  • Sister

• I really love my hair. I really embrace it, and I'm so glad that I made the decision to wear it natural.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Decision
  • Hair

• I am not a law enforcement officer. I am not supposed to be going around checking Indian reservations. That is what you have the FBI for, and they are very capable, the most capable.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Law

• I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Life
  • Loved
  • Knowing

• The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Operation
  • Dusk

• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.

  

  Norman Lloyd
  • Actors
  • Sense
  • Stretch

• I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Confidence
  • Upset
  • Stopped

• Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

  

  Andreas Vesalius
  • Men
  • Women
  • Teeth

• Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stopped
  • Stretch
  • In Time