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

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• 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

• As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • Real
  • Reflection

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

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I am the worlds laziest writer.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Writer
  • Laziest

• I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • World
  • Children
  • Fall

• I think, for me specifically when it comes to music, I don't think that I need any persuading to think about it. It's always kind of in the back of your mind and - but I think it's part of who I am and always will be, I mean, in a very cellular way. When you grow up doing, you know, one thing, I think you get to this place where you want to try new things. And I do think that we live in the type of world where people get comfortable with you in one way, and so seeing you in a different way, it takes some time.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Help
  • Running
  • City

• Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Life
  • Women

• My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Hair

• 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