Dante Alighieri Quotes

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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• One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• I haven't had an orthodox career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Had
  • Orthodox

• 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Help
  • Unique

• For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Boy

• I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Medical
  • Cost
  • Seen

• My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fan
  • Become
  • Patriots

• I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Healthy
  • Risks

• There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • American
  • Waiting

• Given the results of the government's War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, we can assume that a War on Abortion will lead within five years to men having abortions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Men
  • War
  • Poverty

• Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense against the enemy.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Enemy

• The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Art
  • Respect

• A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • Work

• Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

  

  Chris Evert
  • Personality
  • Famous

• Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Soul
  • Prison
  • Recognized

• I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.

  

  Curt Schilling

• The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • German
  • Productivity

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  

  Dante Alighieri