Confucius Quotes

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

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• Death is better than slavery.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Death
  • Better
  • Slavery

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Song
  • Myself

• When we realize that we can see life we gradually give up the things that stand in the way of our complete awareness. As we paint we move along step by step. We realize that we are guided in our work by awareness of life.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  

  Fred Savage
  • Power
  • Control
  • Crazy

• I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

  

  James Nesbitt

• The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Athlete

• I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

  

  Peter Mayle
  • People
  • Great
  • Control

• There's a lot of people blocked on my Twitter for various reasons which I don't need to get into.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • People

• It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • Cooking

• It still hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't had a second to think about it. And I don't physically have the Grammy! So I can't even look at it!

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Have
  • Physically
  • Grammy

• On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Hand

• The loneliest you will get is in the most public of arenas: You will go to a place and end up in the smallest compartment possible, because it's a distraction to everybody, and you end up not getting to enjoy it like everyone else.

  

  George Clooney
  • Enjoy
  • Ends
  • Distraction

• I didn't enjoy working with Bill [Murray]. We fought a lot... but I've let go of some of the anger and we seem to get along fine now.

  

  George Clooney
  • Enjoy
  • Seems
  • Fine

• The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

  

  Euripides
  • Spirit
  • Fate
  • Sticks

• The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Creation

• He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Language
  • Govern

• I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Said
  • Correct
  • Politically

• Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Journey
  • Wings
  • Receive

• Don't question your wife's judgment; look who she married.

  

  Thomas Dewar
  • Wife
  • Looks
  • Married

• My favourite thing about touring is really the shows, because early on you can say it's definitely things like travel and seeing the world and stuff like that, but over time you don't really get to see the world. The most important thing in the day is the show. So that's why I do it.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Important
  • Show
  • Favourite

• To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

  

  Confucius
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