Confucius Quotes

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

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• The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • God
  • Men
  • Dark

• Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • You
  • Film
  • Relationships

• No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • World
  • Parents

• #BlackLivesMatter was born online but now lives in street actions, in conversations in our homes, and in the dignity swelling in our hearts. That is the power of the open Internet, and it is why we must do everything we can to protect black voices. Our lives depend on it.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Why
  • Power
  • Black

• You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

  

  Dick York
  • People
  • Music
  • Air

• Be mindful of what supermarkets are doing and demand to see their business practices. Stop throwing away food. Compost as much as you can, eat as locally and as seasonally as you can. Share knowledge and information.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Business
  • Knowledge
  • Food

• For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Writing
  • Waiting
  • Cutting

• Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Dad
  • Here

• I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.

  

  Lesley Ann Warren
  • Time
  • Joy
  • Dance

• I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• Besides the devastating impact that the Ryan budget has directly on individuals, it does nothing to support job creation or our global competitiveness. Investments in both are drastically affected through cuts in funding for transportation and infrastructure projects, as well as funding for research and development.

  

  Albio Sires
  • Job
  • Support

• What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • Funny
  • Husband

• I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.

  

  Blake Jenner
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• There are many ways to manipulate chip cards. For example, a number of years ago when American Express issued the first chip card, criminals would take a small hammer with a little device and bang the chip to destroy it without hurting the physical appearance of the card.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • American
  • Small

• When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Progress

• I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Freedom
  • Management
  • Truck

• Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.

  

  Gene Green

• We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • Country

• The American people need to know if public servants are operating in the best interests of the United States or the Kremlin.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Interests
  • Servants
  • American People

• Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Hungry
  • Foolish

• Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.

  

  William Batchelder Greene
  • Government
  • Existence
  • Madmen

• When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

  

  Confucius
  • Duties
  • Servants
  • Labors