Confucius Quotes
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
Quotes to Explore
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I actually wasn't much of a book reader at all before the 'Twilight' series. They just draw you in, and people love them. They're terrific books.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee. - The judge
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To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.
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The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
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There is only one 'retirement plan' for terrorists.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
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To be close to your greatest desire could be an exquisite pain
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I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
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In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
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In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
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Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
