Dante Alighieri Quotes

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Dante Alighieri

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• Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Women
  • You

• You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Say
  • Can
  • Stands

• Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Feeling
  • Breathe

• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Party
  • Voice
  • Views

• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Never
  • Clock

• There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Religion
  • Rich
  • Poor

• None but blockheads copy each other.

  

  William Blake
  • Copy
  • Blockheads

• What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  

  John Milton
  • Eternal
  • Providence
  • Assert

• I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happiness

• Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Dark
  • Things
  • Troublesome

• Everybody has some good in them and they can be relied on.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Good
  • Relied

• Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Words
  • Horror
  • Express

• In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Loneliness
  • Surprised
  • Shadows

• Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Language
  • Opposition
  • Shadows

• I am walking home from school slowly, playing a game in which it's forbidden to step on the cracks between the slabstone squares of the pavement. The sun is playing its game of lines and shadows. Nothing happens. There is nothing but this moment, in which I am walking toward home, walking in time. But suddenly, time pierces me with its sadness. This moment will not last. With every step I take, a sliver of time vanishes. Soon, I'll be home, and then this, this nowness will be the past, I think, and time seems to escape behind me, like an invisible current being sucked into an invisible vortex. How can this be, that this fullness, this me on the street, this moment which is perfectly abundant, will be gone? It's like that time I broke a large porcelain doll and no matter how much I wished it back to wholeness, it lay there on the floor in pieces. I can't do anything about this backward tug either. How many moments do I have in life? I hear my own breathing: with every breath, I am closer to death. I slow down my steps: I'm not home yet, but soon I will be, now I am much closer, but not yet… not yet… not yet… Remember this, I command myself, as if that way I could make some of it stay. When you're grown up, you'll remember this. And you'll remember how you told yourself to remember.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Game
  • Sadness
  • Escape

• As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Shadows
  • Beasts
  • Phantoms