Confucius Quotes

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

Confucius

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• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talking
  • Three
  • Ring

• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Enjoy
  • Rose
  • Fragrance

• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Power
  • Style
  • Road

• People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Work
  • Great
  • Father

• I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.

  

  Chaka Khan

• Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • People

• I feel like there is a real lack of empathy - not just in American society, it's definitely happening in Britain as well - and it's heartbreaking that people can see something and not feel it.

  

  Clare-Hope Ashitey
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
  • Why
  • Nice

• I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

  

  Jonathan Frakes
  • American
  • Literature
  • Baseball

• Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Help
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Red
  • Lips
  • Fragrance

• I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Music
  • Dreams
  • Sound

• Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Lives
  • Actions
  • Fragrance

• The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Escape
  • Politicians
  • Roses

• Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.

  

  Elizabeth Enright
  • Water
  • Summer
  • Heat

• Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Death
  • Submit
  • Shamans

• Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Artist

• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

  

  Confucius
  • Roses
  • Fragrance
  • Clings