Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
Wendell Phillips -
I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.
Chance The Rapper -
And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
John Irving -
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
Jayne Ann Krentz -
What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo, in the same place.' And we'll go on YouTube and show it off as a family tattoo.
Barack Obama -
There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
Elayne Boosler
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Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.
Sabeer Bhatia -
We're really on the horns of a dilemma, ... And it seems to me that the levee needs to be preserved until ... everybody sits down together and comes up with a global solution to this problem.
John Young -
I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To boycott it is not the issue. I think it does a disservice to all the African Americans that have worked so hard this year that will be attending and looking at this as an opportunity of a lifetime. I think it's a slap in the face. I understand the sentiment, but I don't appreciate the tactic.
Eva Pigford -
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William James -
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
Isaac Newton -
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
Isaac Newton
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius -
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Confucius -
England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
William Cowper -
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
George Eliot -
Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.
Gautama Buddha -
A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax