Lao Tzu Quotes
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.Lao Tzu
Quotes to Explore
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Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.
Ha-Joon Chang -
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
Park Chan-wook -
By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Barbara Demick -
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
Hansie Cronje -
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
Patricia Millett -
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
Gail Simmons
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
Forest Whitaker -
I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
Sadie Frost -
My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
Lake Bell -
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys -
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter -
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
Jack McDevitt -
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Zaha Hadid -
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
Jack Kemp -
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
Imelda May -
I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
Carlos Ghosn
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
Zoe Wanamaker -
In choosing people for specific jobs previous experience should not be a guide. I never put a man in the job which he thought he knew. Often the 'experts' make the worst possible Ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by amateurs.
Clement Attlee -
I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.
Emily Ratajkowski -
Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
Jeff Daniels -
I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.
John Gordon Sinclair -
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.
Lao Tzu