Daode Jing Quotes & Sayings

The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order. — David Frum

Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq. — Kevin Bacon

The thesis that the living creatures have always been composed different species was established in a time where no sufficient observations had been made and when science hardly existed. This thesis is denied every day by those who have made accurate observations, who have long time observed nature and who have had the benefit from studying our musei's large and rich collections. — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The worst of me wants credit for intending to do right by Jermaine, and has no intentions of disrupting my life for the needs of a cousin I always looked up to. — Kiese Laymon

And I think of how time passes so differently for different people. — Nina LaCour

Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal. — Buddy Valastro

I nestled into the nook of Mum's arm. Then lay on a cushion on her lap. I fell asleep like that. She's all bones and hard edges. She's never been comfortable, but she's always been there. — Nathan Filer

Work is the best thing to make us love life. — Ernest Renan

Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity ... Preach with urgency ... heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision. — Billy Graham

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. — Edward Gorey

Father sighed. "Please spare me these arguments of yours."
"Whose arguments should I use? — Franny Billingsley

He does not make himself seen,
therefore he is bright;
he does not deem himself to be right,
therefore he is illustrious;
he does not brag,
therefore he has merit;
he does not boast,
therefore he lasts long.
It is only because he does not contend
that no one in the world contends with him.
(Daode jing, 22, part.) — Lao-Tzu

Just then a bullet zips between us. That gets my pants off pretty quick. — Sam A. Patel

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. — John Stuart Blackie

Soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof. — George Eliot

What do you want? Egg in your beer? — Philip K. Dick