Beam Quote by Confucius Download Open image “The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant.” — Confucius ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beam Break Collapse Men Mountain Plant Wise Wise man
“The great shapes of the hills, embrowned and glowing with the molten hues of autumn, are all about him: the towering summits, wild and lonely, full of joy and strangeness and their haunting premonitions of oncoming winter soar above him, the gulches, gorges, gaps, and wild ravines, fall sheer and suddenly away with a dizzy terrifying steepness, and all the… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share
“This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the… — Juan Mascaro Copy Share Image
“And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When mountains move, the earth shakes. When you stand as close as we have to real-life miracles, you will get roughed up. Mountains are… — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Mountains have long been a geography for pilgrimage, place where people have been humbled and strengthened, they are symbols of the sacred center. Many… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the… — Eric Rucker Eddison Copy Share Image
If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“What do we do with mountains? For us who have lived most of our lives on monotonous level ground, mountains give indelible character to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Hence the dazzling mountain scene that takes our breath away should not provoke us to try to seize and freeze the moment, but to… — Daniel J. Treier Copy Share Image
“Life and the work on the mountain had left their mark. Everything about him was warped and crooked. His back seemed to be heading down towards the earth in a tight curve, and he increasingly had the feeling that his spine was growing up over his head. On the mountain his foothold was still firm, and not even the strong… — Robert Seethaler Copy Share
“The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. — Confucius Copy Share Image
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! — Confucius Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods,… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
See with what force yon river's crystal stream Resists the weight of many a massy beam. To sink the wood the more we vainly… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Let her alone,' said the enkanto, 'or I will curse you blind, lame, and worse.' The old man laughed. 'I'm a curse breaker, fool.'… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho Copy Share Image
I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image