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

• Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Significance

• Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Feelings
  • Talent
  • Force

• Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Science

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

  

  Confucius
  • Trials
  • Polished
  • Gem