Confucius Quotes

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Fear
  • Stand

• Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Good
  • Pain

• Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Nature
  • Desire

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Long

• I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People

• Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.

  

  Clive Granger

• I'm strong enough and have a pretty thick skin, but when people go after my kids, I just hit block-delete, block-delete. It's my mantra.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • People
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

  

  Charles Fillmore
  • Words
  • Spiritual

• I live in a bubble.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Live

• I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • People
  • Men
  • Trust

• I would love to do a Black Widow movie. That's perfect, I would love to do that. That character is really interesting: she doesn't have any superpowers; she just has extraordinary skills, and the world that she comes from, being this ex-K.G.B. assassin, I find that really fascinating, yeah.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • World
  • She
  • Character

• Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

  

  Neville Marriner

• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder.

  

  Aaron Hernandez
  • World
  • Things
  • Murder

• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  

  William Osler
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Tragedy

• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Art
  • Film
  • Theatre

• The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

  

  Confucius
  • Desire
  • Station
  • Superior Man

• A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

  

  Confucius
  • Fooled
  • Superior Man
  • Imposed