Confucius Quotes

The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

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• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Game
  • Name
  • Laugh

• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Music
  • Process
  • Loved

• The admission to Harvard College depends upon examinations; and if this boy passes the examinations, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education.

  

  Edward Everett
  • Education
  • College
  • Boy

• Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • History
  • Hope

• The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory, and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way. It contains in its basic structure both quantum mechanics and the theory of gravity. That's big news.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Important
  • Together
  • Single

• I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Value
  • Scripture

• [The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science
  • Free

• I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Club
  • Member
  • Belong

• I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Girl
  • Drawing
  • Generations

• My doctors say I am very healthy.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Healthy
  • Doctors

• Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Mind
  • Humans
  • Constructive

• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Men
  • Character
  • Book

• The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Want
  • Luxury
  • Circles

• Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • College
  • Proud

• If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Question
  • Woman
  • Eternity

• What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • People
  • Weird
  • Trump

• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Breath
  • Belts
  • Passengers

• The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters.

  

  Confucius
  • Vices
  • Guest
  • Passengers