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

• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth

• I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

  

  Andrew Fastow
  • Deserve
  • Prison
  • Punishment

• I came back from vacation and I ate everything. I mean I'm sipping cocktails by the pool, thinking I'm a size 2. And now, you know, my dress is tight. So, I need it, too. I always need to remind myself: It's okay.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Pool

• When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • People
  • Wife
  • New York

• When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

  

  Steven Hall
  • Writer
  • Phone
  • Tool

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

  

  Confucius
  • Root
  • Neglected
  • Springs