Lao Tzu Quotes

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

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• The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Never
  • Race
  • Curse

• When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Earth

• Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Team
  • Yourself

• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • News
  • Liberal
  • Rhetoric

• Badminton is not a popular sport in India.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Popular
  • India
  • Badminton

• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Why

• The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Good
  • Music
  • Sound

• I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Good
  • Fire
  • Creative

• What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Book
  • Water

• It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Exercise
  • Look

• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Different
  • Country
  • Moving

• I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Fighting
  • Body

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Carpenter
  • Mentioned

• The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.

  

  Brian Morton
  • People
  • Books
  • Bohemian painters

• I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Feelings

• For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Experience
  • Me
  • English

• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Small
  • Comedy
  • Get Away

• All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Born
  • Being
  • All Things