Kong Zi Quotes

#1. We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

William P. Leahy

#2. Some jobs offer increments. This one offered ... well, quite the reverse

Terry Pratchett

#3. Your mind can make you sick, and your mind can heal you.

Stan Beecham

#4. Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.

James Riley

#5. The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Dante Alighieri

#6. Come, Adam, a wise man does not step betwixt the beast & his meat.

David Mitchell

#7. I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

Star Jones

#8. Mankind, if it is to survive, must choose its leaders by the test of their intellectuality; and, contrarily, leadership must justify itself by its detachment, moderation and power of analysis.

John Keegan

#9. Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience

Henry Ford

#10. The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#11. The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

#12. The real powers at play never take center stage. Don't follow the marionette, follow the strings.

William Ritter

#13. Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

Kate Williams