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

• In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Best
  • Spiritual
  • Recover

• Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me.

  

  Edward Taylor
  • Complete
  • Spinning
  • Distaff

• It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the internet as a threat in part because they see the US government behind the internet. It would not be accurate to say they are reacting to the threat posed by the internet, they are reacting to the threat poised by United States via the internet. They are not reacting against blogs, or Facebook or Twitter per se, they are reacting against organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy funding bloggers and activists.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Democracy
  • Internet
  • Threat

• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the Book of Mormon to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Evolution
  • Families
  • Teachings

• I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Moral
  • Television
  • Operation

• What has not yet emerged is easy to prevent.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Prevent
  • Emerged