Confucius Quotes

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

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• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Best
  • Worst
  • Prepare

• Heroes can be sweet.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
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• I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

  

  Jane Gardam
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• If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Life
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• Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Country
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• I'll watch a kung fu movie for kicks, no pun intended, but I'd prefer to watch other movies besides dubbed kung fu things, but they're funny.

  

  Alex D. Linz
  • Movie
  • Funny
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• Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Done
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• The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • Time
  • Stories
  • Silly

• People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Good
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• The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Computer
  • Revenge
  • Nerd

• I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

  

  Floyd Elliot Wray
  • Different
  • Love
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• His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • God
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• Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Hurt
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Life
  • Debt

• The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.

  

  Confucius
  • Injury
  • Leads
  • Economize