Confucius Quotes

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

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• We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Freedom

• You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Water
  • Sweet
  • Lose

• To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fashion
  • Actress
  • Well

• It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Discrimination
  • Racial

• When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

  

  Om Puri
  • School
  • College
  • Voice

• When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • School
  • High

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• My job is to stop Britain from going red.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Red

• There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Political
  • Question

• Everything in life is luck.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Luck

• I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I've learned that that stuff isn't real, and it doesn't exist unless you look at it.

  

  Lily James
  • Real
  • Nice

• I love any comedic zombie movies.

  

  Atticus Shaffer

• I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

  

  Christen Press
  • Goals

• I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

  

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

• Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Important
  • Country
  • Struggle

• Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.

  

  Corey Hawkins

• No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

  

  Cybill Shepherd

• If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Clue

• It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Memories
  • Directions
  • Whirlwind

• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Fighting
  • Events

• Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Problem
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  

  Confucius
  • Trials
  • Polished
  • Gem