Confucius Quotes

It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

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• I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • People
  • Up
  • Government

• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Long
  • May
  • Age

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Business
  • Forever
  • Period

• There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Emotions
  • Go
  • July

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Experience
  • Changes

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Discipline
  • Healthy
  • Clothes

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Always
  • Dance
  • Now

• Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Body

• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Illness
  • Absence
  • Native

• But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Pain
  • Choice
  • Sorrow

• It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

  

  Confucius
  • Purpose
  • Better
  • Procees