Confucius Quotes

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

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• A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Long
  • Money
  • Power

• Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • World
  • Night

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Nature
  • Rebel
  • Human Nature

• There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Educated

• My hair is naturally super curly. But I really don't do so much to it. I just sleep on it and see what happens.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Sleep
  • Hair

• I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Different
  • Done

• At home, a man is entitled to raise his voice maybe once a year, if something really gets under his skin. At work, it's different. I raise my voice all the time. Not out of malice, but to get things right. It's never personal.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Food
  • Choices

• There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Literature

• I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

  

  Linford Christie

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.

  

  David Whyte
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Homecoming

• I don't need to sing in front of thousands, as I can sing in the shower.

  

  Sia LSD

• Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

  

  Brenda Strong
  • Struggle
  • Balance
  • Husband

• I still watch TGIF shows like 'Family Matters.'

  

  Kyle Mooney
  • Family

• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  

  Dee Hock
  • People
  • Free

• It seems so easy to write about some normal event and twist it a little bit to make it into a supernatural event.

  

  Arthur Slade
  • Supernatural

• We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Hero

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• I'd be willing to do anything. I'm not precious. I'd wash dishes.

  

  Linus Roache

• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

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

  

  Confucius
  • Warrior
  • Good Man
  • Nails