Lao Tzu Quotes

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Lao Tzu

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• My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Now
  • Beer
  • Solution

• Regulation creates a moral hazard.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Moral
  • Regulation
  • Hazard

• I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • House
  • Determined

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • More
  • Works
  • Arabic

• When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Brother

• The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Beauty

• I like what I've seen. He's a very quiet, respectful kid but when he plays, he plays hard.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Hard
  • Kid
  • Plays

• How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Time
  • Freaks

• The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Women
  • Society
  • Opportunity

• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Plants
  • Edible
  • Herbalism

• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Patience
  • Preaching

• I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • System
  • Glad
  • Laborer

• The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

  

  Scott Turow
  • People
  • Vision
  • Goal

• These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • May
  • War
  • Universe

• I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Acting
  • Young
  • Student

• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Profit
  • Abandon
  • Thieves