Lao Tzu Quotes

Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Like

• The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Long
  • War
  • Nuclear Weapons

• Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Children
  • Opportunity
  • Creativity

• Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Love
  • Essential

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Time
  • Why
  • Violence

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Time
  • Art
  • Alone

• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• Do you think, Ari, that love has anything to do with the secrets of the universe? I don’t know. Maybe.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Secrets

• I love kissing. If I could kiss all day, I would. I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep. And when you wake up, you can’t stop thinking about kissing. Dammit, I can’t get anything done because I’m so busy thinking about kissing. Kissing is madness! But it’s absolute paradise, if you can find a good kisser.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Thinking
  • Sleep
  • Forever

• People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

  

  Israel Horovitz
  • Name
  • Carrying
  • Torah

• Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Trust