Confucius Quotes

A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

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• I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.

  

  Gary Wright
  • God
  • Rest
  • Hands

• People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Cookies
  • Bake

• And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Look

• No particular place to go, So we parked way out on the Kokomo The night was young and the moon was bold So we both decided to take a stroll Can you imagine the way I felt? I couldn't unfasten her safety belt!

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Safety

• For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Children
  • Exercise

• Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.

  

  Jimmy Gomez

• There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Moral
  • Empathy

• I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I can't even fix my mouth to tell her 'no' for anything.

  

  Dwight Henry
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Daughter

• I don't know if I'd call it a favorite, but there was an entree in the rotation at my grade school cafeteria called 'Salisbury Steak' that was some kind of freestanding spongiform potage covered in a sauce that would probably have to be spelled 'grayvee' for legal reasons.

  

  Adam Rex
  • School

• This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Home

• The world is founded on a pillar which is founded on the Deep.

  

  John Crowley
  • World
  • Deep

• We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Lost

• Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Inspiration
  • Performers
  • Elvis

• It was reported today that U.S. military bases will not show 'Brokeback Mountain.' However, during interrogations, U.S. troops will continue to show 'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Military
  • Mountain

• I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Band
  • Self
  • Lyrics

• Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

  

  Tacitus
  • Beautiful
  • Style

• What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Path
  • Unknown

• A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

  

  Confucius
  • Warrior
  • Good Man
  • Nails

• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

  

  Confucius
  • Satisfy
  • Good Man
  • Constancy