Confucius Quotes

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

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• Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Look

• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Justice
  • Growth

• I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Stage

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Men
  • Free
  • Freedom

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Time
  • Just
  • Most

• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Trying
  • Daily

• I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Works

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Success
  • Start
  • Scared

• From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • More
  • Relative
  • Skydiving

• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• The simple things in life make me very happy.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Sex

• Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.

  

  David Christian
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• I went down to Chicago to try to go into a place called Second City. I auditioned for that and got in pretty quickly, but I couldn't stop partying. They gave me a warning: 'If you do it again, we're gonna kick you off the main stage.'

  

  Chris Farley
  • Pretty
  • Stop
  • City

• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Example
  • Ruler