Lao Tzu Quotes
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
Quotes to Explore
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
