Lao Tzu Quotes
A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.
Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94, but now it's just like a doorstop. One day I said, 'I'll go in and get all my old documents in there.' The cords and the wires are all gone, the discettes you need are gone. Meanwhile the little electrons are starting to wither away.
Douglas Coupland
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[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.
Manning Marable
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson
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We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
Queen Victoria
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I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.
Dennis Hastert
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Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.
Sandra Brown
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.
Virginia Woolf
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Jonathan Swift
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The Master Mind principle: Two or more people actively engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive mental attitude, constitute an unbeatable force.
Napoleon Hill
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How many push ups do you do? I don't know. I only starts counting when it starts hurting.
Muhammad Ali
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I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."
Niecy Nash