Lao Tzu Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the only thing they have to worry about is playing football and playing football alone.
Abby Wambach -
I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
Kandyse McClure -
Milk is a really important part of my diet. For London, I had to be in the best shape of my life, and having milk every day played a part in that.
Jade Jones -
I think everybody who commits a violent killing is in some way crazy. But that doesn't mean we can let them off the hook for that.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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You can't really yell, 'Charge!' and hope to have your team behind you unless they agree that the hill you are trying to take is a hill you should take.
John Delaney -
I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
John Buchan -
Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde -
You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.
Charles Marion Russell -
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
H. L. Mencken
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The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.
N. T. Wright -
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
Virginia Woolf -
Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.
Earnest Hooton -
I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
Oprah Winfrey -
Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.
Charles de Foucauld -
The sage has no concern for himself, but makes the concerns of others his own.
Lao Tzu