Confucius Quotes

Be in harmony, yet be different.

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• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Eye
  • Tradition
  • Jews

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Said

• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rules
  • Follow
  • Nobody

• For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Up
  • End
  • Very

• I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Love
  • Animals
  • Chill

• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Talent
  • Stupidity

• Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Very
  • Talk
  • Well

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Enough
  • Admit

• Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Movie

• There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • World

• If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Up
  • Play
  • Wake Up

• I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in the league, basically. We had four players go to the All-Star game.

  

  Nelly
  • Different
  • Game
  • Black

• Be in harmony, yet be different.

  

  Confucius
  • Different
  • Harmony