Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

A person is born with a liking for profit.

Xun Zi

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Xun Zi

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

Xun Zi

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Xun Zi

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Xun Zi

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Xun Zi

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Xun Zi

If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.

Xun Zi

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Peter Jackson

I never dreamed in a million years that 'The Lord of the Rings' would be nominated for an Oscar. Those types of fantasy movies never got nominations.

Alan Smith

I would love to play in one of the other top leagues in Europe, I am ready to play abroad. I watch the Spanish football on Saturday and Sunday nights and have often dreamed of playing out there.

Frank Bennett

It is far more than I dreamed that it would or could be, far more,

Julian Castro

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

Charlie Villanueva

It felt good to be out there, it's something I've always dreamed about, to be out there. But it would have been better to get the win.

Al Horford

You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.

John Wade

To have an experience like this, it's unbelievable. I never dreamed of doing something like this.

Kris Taylor

Nobody ever dreamed we would grow into that $2 cap.

Tatyana Lebedeva

I have always dreamed of earning so much money,

Renzo Piano

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

Melissa Leo

My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.

Mark Ruffalo

I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.

Ben Roethlisberger

To play receiver and not play quarterback until my senior year, I never thought I'd be in this situation. I always wanted to be here and dreamt about it as a kid, but I never thought it would happen.

Marlon Wayans

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Roberto Benigni

Kubrick is like someone like Fellini, like Kafka, like someone who really dreamt for us and gave to us the key to understand something and the pleasure to tell the story,

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Ross Mathews

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.

Gail Kelly

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.

William Osler

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

William Prescott

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

William J. Mayo

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

Cheyenne Jackson

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.