Dante Alighieri Quotes

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

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• Heaven
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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
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• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I want to see more sports in schools.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Want
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• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
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• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
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• Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Love
  • Better
  • For Her

• I was a sports kid.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Sports
  • Kid

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Night

• What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
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• I'm going to fire everybody - that’s how. You're either going to stop leaking, or you're going to get fired. If I've got to get the thing down to me and Sarah Huckabee, then the leaking will stop.

  

  Anthony Scaramucci
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• The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Important
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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • People
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• England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • May
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  • Free

• We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.

  

  Christine McCormick Day
  • Earth
  • Community
  • Illusion

• You humans act so strange. Everything you create is used to destroy.

  

  Luc Besson

• Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • May
  • Song
  • Wine

• 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
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Cries