Dante Alighieri Quotes

Ciascun confusamente un bene apprendenel qual si queti l'animo, e disira;per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.

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• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • You
  • Know
  • Accomplish

• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Talking

• As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Present

• I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

  

  Kanye West
  • Trying
  • School
  • Jesus

• There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Job
  • House
  • Humble

• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Work
  • Understand
  • Hard Work

• You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • May

• 'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Why
  • Crazy

• How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? asks security guard Is seventeen legal?

  

  Alice Cooper

• It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • City

• What today's decision will stand for, whether the Justices can bring themselves to say it or not, is the power of the Supreme Court to write a prophylactic, extraconstitutional Constitution, binding on Congress and the States.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Power
  • Today
  • Decision

• Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Methinks in those thy coward fearsThere might, perchance, a courage be,That fails in these the manlier years;Courage to let the courage sink,Itself a coward base to think,Rather than not for heavenly lightWait on to show the truly right.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Coward

• You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Distance

• In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Important
  • Football
  • Opinion

• Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Good

• I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

  

  Linda M. Godwin

• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu

• You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Dream
  • Focus
  • Decision

• Without the work, the magic won’t come.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Magic

• The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Different
  • Community
  • Lies

• Seigneur, si j'ai raison, qu'importe à qui je sois?

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  

  Alonso Duralde
  • Movie
  • Hero
  • Impression

• Ciascun confusamente un bene apprendenel qual si queti l'animo, e disira;per che di giugner lui ciascun contende.

  

  Dante Alighieri