Confucius Quotes

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

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• Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Man
  • Tragedy

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fate
  • Decisions
  • Survive

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Daily

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Regrets

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Internet
  • Media
  • News

• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Family
  • Money

• It's painful to consider anything but writing.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Writing

• She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Summer

• If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

  

  John Russell
  • Peace

• Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

  

  Elisabeth Sladen
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Fear