"Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the……" — Laozi
"Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction."
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1,065 Quotes by Laozi
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated…
— Sun Tzu
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
— Peter Weiss
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
— Karl Kraus
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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