Confucius Quotes

Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
  • Religious

• I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Working
  • Fate
  • Guilty

• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Live
  • Free
  • Me

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Long
  • I Can
  • Knit

• I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • I Believe

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Grade

• I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

  

  David Christian
  • History
  • Together

• There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Nothing

• I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Life
  • Music
  • True

• I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Work

• Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.

  

  Confucius
  • Life
  • Labor
  • Occupation