Lao Tzu Quotes

Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.

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• I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Once

• The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Thoughts
  • Acting

• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Start

• All my life I have fought corruption.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Corruption

• I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Time
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Home
  • Past

• Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• How is it that one way of seeing the world becomes so widely shared that institutions, technologies, production systems, buildings, cities, become shaped around that way of seeing?

  

  Donella Meadows
  • World

• I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

  

  Dennis Weaver
  • Live
  • Kids

• If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Live
  • Focus

• Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

  

  Claire Trevor
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Picture

• Develop the strength of a man, but live as gently as a woman.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Live
  • Man
  • Develop