Lao Tzu Quotes

If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

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• I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Strong
  • Golf
  • Gift

• EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Mother
  • Artist
  • Feelings

• I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Like
  • Find

• I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Time
  • God
  • Success

• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

  

  Johann Heinrich Lambert
  • Mind

• I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

  

  Hadewijch
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wish

• These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Fields
  • Pioneers
  • Antidepressants

• Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Cracks
  • Decay

• The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Federal Reserve
  • Recession

• I think she would be a very interesting patient. I'd recommend she come three times a week.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Week

• If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Margarita

• But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

  

  Lady Gaga

• In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Literature
  • Public Life

• In America they got two policemen, five policemen and one car watching each other, each has got a pistol, one has got a machine gun, one' got a shotgun and two dogs growling at each other.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Dogs
  • Policemen
  • Machine Gun

• Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Stupid
  • Idiot
  • Bunch

• The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Arrangements
  • Strip

• If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Kings
  • Princes
  • Exalted