Lao Tzu Quotes

When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

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• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Future
  • Thought
  • First

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• I love spin classes. I'm also very big on music, so I make a mix on my iPod that's 45 minutes to an hour long of music that pumps me up so I know how much time I've been at the gym without looking at the clock. Put your favorite songs towards the end of the mix, so this way you keep going until you hear your favorite song.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Home
  • War

• London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • English

• Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Lake

• I chose 1000 originally partly as a way to make sure that people that assumed HZ was 100 would get a swift kick in the pants.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People

• I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life

• I love supporting female-owned companies and women who are awesome.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Women
  • Awesome

• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Fear

• Most people live their life around what other people do.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Today
  • Career

• In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Persons
  • Given
  • Rewards

• The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I'd get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you.

  

  Paul Lynde
  • Long
  • House
  • Comedy

• It encourages a stern and ignorant spirit of condemnation; it throws altogether out of gear the healthy movement of the conscience; it invents virtues which are sterile and cruel; it invents sins which are no sins at all, but which darken the heaven of innocent joy with futile clouds of remorse.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Joy
  • Spirit
  • Healthy

• If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

  

  Aristotle
  • Human
  • Property
  • Difficulty

• When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Magnificent
  • Weeds
  • Granaries