Lao Tzu Quotes

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

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• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Work
  • Art
  • Change

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Giving

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Me
  • Deal
  • Someone

• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Myself
  • New
  • Breakfast

• We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Science
  • Kind
  • Possible

• Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • School
  • Never
  • Goodness

• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Change
  • Living
  • Grow

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • You
  • Film
  • Yourself

• I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I think it's wrong, ladies and gentlemen, for anybody to to be terrorized out of investigating anything. You have the right to read any book. You have the right to hear any speaker and that includes the vile communist that I'd just as soon gas - but you ought to hear him before we gas him.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Book
  • Gentleman
  • Communist

• I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Problems
  • Acquaint

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Enemy

• No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Risk
  • Enemy
  • Treasure