Confucius Quotes

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

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• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Unfortunately

• I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Knows
  • Talking

• None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• All of our guys thought he was on the ground. That's what everybody told me. I didn't see it, but that's what instant replay is for.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Players
  • Replay

• My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Father
  • Street

• When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Home

• I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • May
  • Admire
  • Willing

• It's rare to have a best friend who is also your brother and also an NFL football player, and he knows exactly what I'm talking about.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Player

• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Fashion
  • Care
  • Mischief

• And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Values
  • Creator
  • Annihilator

• Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Gateway
  • Antithesis

• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

  

  Petrarch
  • Author
  • Places
  • Recover

• I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Myself
  • Express
  • Visually

• Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  

  Confucius
  • Affairs
  • Advantages
  • Prevents