Lao Tzu Quotes
The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Zhang Ziyi
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A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton
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Terror cannot be finished by one war.
Yitzhak Rabin
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We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.
Karl Rove
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Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.
Peter Bergen
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If a brand wants a specific girl, they want a specific girl, wherever you are.
Philomena Kwao
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Presents, I often say, endear absents.
Charles Lamb
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
Henry Ward Beecher
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People prefer the certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty
Virginia Satir
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Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.
Virginia Satir
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
Sophocles
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
Virginia Woolf
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
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I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
Theodore Roethke
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have
done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
Albert Einstein
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I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common.
Isaac Newton
