Lao Tzu Quotes

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Me
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• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
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• I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Man
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• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
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• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • History
  • Past
  • Perspective

• The weather still continues charming.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Weather
  • Charming
  • Continues

• I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Present

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
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• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • She
  • Night

• What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Hell
  • Farmers
  • Corn

• It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

  

  Plato
  • Laws
  • Master
  • Consider

• That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Working
  • Perfectly
  • Ploy

• A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

  

  Aristotle
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Person

• As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Life
  • Boxing
  • Entire

• The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

  

  Homer
  • Delaware
  • Simpsons

• There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desires
  • Disaster
  • Discontent