Confucius Quotes

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

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• But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Life
  • Know
  • Day

• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Root

• I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Try

• We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them time, attention and the love of our pure, unselfish hearts.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Time
  • Children
  • Love

• I love the routine. I love getting up in the morning and getting breakfast and packing lunches and doing the school run. Those things are really important to me. Because I think that those small but key moments are crucial for a kid.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In cares of state and private plights,In rowdy feasts of friendship's band,In passion's sweet and secret rites!God grant you, friends, a helping hand-In daily woes and days of strife,On vacant sa, in distant land,In every black abyss of life!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Life
  • God
  • Friends

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• All of those loan programs that the federal government administers have flaws.

  

  Bill Flores

• Every story takes its toll on me and leaves an impression on me.

  

  Lynsey Addario

• 'Rent' audiences tend to be pretty vocal. They scream and cheer a lot.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Pretty
  • Cheer

• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Country
  • Broken
  • Tennis

• Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

  

  David Thewlis
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Virtue
  • Economy
  • Root

• With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Age

• At its root, this is what faith is. It is not believing in God. It's believing God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Faith
  • Root

• Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

  

  Angela Davis
  • Radical
  • Root
  • Grasping

• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Financial

• I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Good
  • Root
  • Pigs

• The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Opportunity
  • Mean
  • Heaven

• The concept of absolute, hence or whence springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought or mind in the field of science. ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

  

  African Spir
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Govern

• Money the root of evil guess I'm the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.

  

  Ace Hood
  • Money
  • Evil
  • Root

• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Praise
  • Enjoying

• It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

  

  Confucius
  • Root
  • Neglected
  • Springs