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

• Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Soul
  • Free
  • Color

• A big part of making a good record is really getting a vibe, and a vibe is a mysterious thing. The vibe kind of exists in the air in the room. It's not just all the stuff you put on there, and the specific notes and arrangements and all that. That's like half of it. The other half is just the air, and just the spirit.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Spirit
  • Record
  • Exists

• “But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”

  

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.
  • Men
  • Love
  • Power

• You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happiness

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

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Magnificent
  • Weeds
  • Granaries