Lao Tzu Quotes

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

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• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Team

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Law
  • Problem

• I'm on a search for the truth.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Truth
  • Search

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Hate
  • Choice
  • Just

• It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Difficult
  • Realize
  • Governor

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Twitter
  • Awkward
  • Drums

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Flag
  • Sail

• I can't play a character that I am judging.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Character
  • Play
  • Judging

• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Devil

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it. Maybe things would have gone differently for me in some ways if I had.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Image
  • Ways

• Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Contains

• Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Way
  • Ignorant

• Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

  

  Lao Tzu
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