Lao Tzu Quotes

What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

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• The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Play
  • Myself
  • I Can

• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Death
  • Sympathy

• The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power

• I just want to keep improving, to keep getting better.

  

  Kawhi Leonard

• Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Serious

• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Son
  • Young Man

• Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Water

• But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

  

  Claudia Cardinale
  • Eyes

• I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Money

• Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret.

  

  Jeff Sessions
  • Responsibility

• Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.

  

  Anatoly Chubais
  • Money

• I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

  

  Marv Levy
  • School
  • Experience
  • Law

• We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• There is no wealth but life.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life

• Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Greatness
  • Distinction
  • Expenses

• I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • House
  • Keep

• For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Imagine
  • Healthy
  • Dangerous

• Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

  

  Bernardine Dohrn
  • Killing
  • Cop
  • Inhuman

• What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Prevent
  • Emerged