Confucius Quotes

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

Confucius

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
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• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
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• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  

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• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
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• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Think
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• I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

  

  Ed Walsh
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• Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means.

  

  Doris Humphrey
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• Our culture often expects women in general, and fat women in particular, to confine and limit themselves. We are often discouraged, in many different ways, from moving freely, playfully, and happily in the world. We’re not supposed to take up space and be visible and spontaneous and dynamic, colorful or loud or boisterous or rambunctious. Heaven knows we’re not supposed to be fierce, physically unafraid, and fully aware of our own physical power.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Heaven

• Acting is a form of confusion.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Acting
  • Form
  • Confusion

• Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

  

  Confucius
  • Virtue
  • Strength
  • Sufficient