Confucius Quotes

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Problems

• Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Space
  • Intelligent

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Heaven

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Heaven
  • Chinese
  • River

• I am not too intelligent.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Intelligent

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Heaven

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Process

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Intelligent

• Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Football
  • Intelligent
  • Chicago

• How odd that girl's life looks Behind this soft eclipse! I think that earth seems so To those in heaven now. This being comfort, then That other kind was pain; But why compare? I'm wife! stop there!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Heaven

• More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

  

  Meredith Baxter
  • Beautiful
  • Wanted
  • Actress

• Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Passion
  • Religion
  • Christ

• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Good
  • Dinner
  • New Years

• Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Intelligent
  • Long Life