Confucius Quotes
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
Sam Kean -
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
Yohan Blake -
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
Yusuf Hamied -
No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
Mara Wilson -
I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
Omar Sy -
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
Dan Webster
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier -
I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
Zara Larsson -
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
Calvin Coolidge -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
Talulah Riley -
I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
Bear Grylls -
Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
Dan Rather -
So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
Edmund Morgan -
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
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Oh well, I’ll be sure to pick you up again somewhere. It isn’t a very big island, and you are a conspicuous object, driving round it.’ This was true. So long as I was on that island I could not hope to escape Charlotte. I entered Binz in a state of moody acquiescence.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
Robert Webb -
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde -
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
Josh Hutcherson -
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.
Confucius