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

• Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Society
  • Free

• All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Trying
  • Respect
  • Dancer

• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Virtue
  • Emotions

• The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Men
  • Real
  • Science

• In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

  

  Walter Alexander Raleigh
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Wish

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

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Firm
  • Modest