Xunzi Quotes

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

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• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Personality

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Always
  • Through
  • Likes

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Purpose
  • Fact
  • Obscure

• I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Successful

• There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Done
  • Thought
  • Tax

• Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Election
  • Advance
  • Auction

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• There's a tiny number of Bitcoin wizards and an enormous number of smart developers that have no onramp to Bitcoin. We need to make that onramp easier.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Number

• I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• [Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sweet

• Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trust

• In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures, by delightful forethoughts of them; so that when we come to possess them, they do not answer the expectation, nor satisfy the desires which were raised about them, and they vanish into nothing.

  

  John Tillotson
  • World
  • Heart
  • Desire

• You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

  

  Xunzi
  • Opportunity
  • Expectations
  • Initiative