Lao Tzu Quotes

Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

Lao Tzu

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• I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Women
  • Want
  • Care

• I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Sex
  • Just Because

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I can paint in jail.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • I Can
  • Paint
  • Jail

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Memory
  • Writer
  • Without

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Angel

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Bike
  • Riding

• Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Passion
  • Christmas
  • White

• Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight.

  

  Saigyō
  • Mind
  • Moon
  • Serenity

• Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

  

  Chilon of Sparta
  • Life
  • Punishment
  • Painful

• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  

  William P. Young
  • Running
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• Information is always to be treasured, Raul. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Universe
  • Honesty

• Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Universe

• Because he is a living divinity, when he acts, the universe acts.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Living
  • Acts