Confucius Quotes

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.

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• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Like

• The president I came to know best was George Herbert Walker Bush. No. 41 in your program, No. 1 on your list of fast-playing golfers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Best
  • President

• Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Why

• I'm a strong-and-stable-dollar advocate, and the Fed has been moving dangerously away from that mission.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Strong
  • Moving

• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Faith
  • Risk

• The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • Future
  • Debate
  • Fights

• When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Fool
  • Intelligent
  • Show Me

• I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • World
  • Heart
  • Rest

• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • America
  • History
  • Past

• My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Great
  • Education

• Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Right
  • Say
  • Can

• poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Poverty
  • Hunger
  • Obsolete

• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Men
  • Focus
  • Successful

• It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Today
  • Want
  • Bored

• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Member
  • Jury
  • Traitor

• In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

  

  Saunders Teddell
  • Friend
  • Died
  • Harmonica

• Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Artist
  • Selfish
  • Good Reason

• I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.

  

  Reinhard Selten
  • Population
  • Germany
  • October

• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  

  Ernst Engel
  • Family
  • Food
  • Measure

• Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife.

  

  Confucius
  • Population
  • Strife
  • Reduce