Confucius Quotes

A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

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• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • High
  • Understanding
  • Criticism

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Brother
  • Trouble
  • Chicago

• I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Freedom
  • Imagination
  • Create

• Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Wall

• Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Desire
  • Reflection
  • Forgiveness

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Detail

• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Game
  • Death
  • Cure

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Mother

• Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Opportunity
  • Fans
  • Treat

• What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• You wouldn't take me to be a Skrillex fan, but honestly, when I'm at his shows, I get high and liquored up, and I just go in the crowd and start raving.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • High
  • Shows

• I take pride in being a jack of all trades.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Pride
  • Trades
  • Jack

• My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Black
  • Community
  • Dad

• Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

  

  Gene Logsdon
  • Country
  • Painting
  • Speak

• A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act.

  

  Confucius
  • Speak
  • Act
  • Wishes