Confucius Quotes

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Help
  • Challenge

• Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Powerful
  • Voice
  • Washington

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Fit

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Water

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Right
  • Voicing

• The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Spirit

• I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Time
  • Hope
  • House

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

  

  David Roochnik
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Teacher

• When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Laws
  • Understood
  • Grievance

• If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

  

  John Aniston
  • Technology
  • Clicks

• The last adventure left on this planet is creativity because we've been everywhere. There's not much left to explore. But there's a lot of exploration left in the human imagination.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Creativity
  • Adventure

• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Firm
  • Modest