Dante Alighieri Quotes

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Dante Alighieri

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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Passion

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Girl
  • Clothes
  • Machista

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Help
  • Patience

• While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Secret

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Explore

• We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Girl
  • Days

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Give
  • Mother`s
  • Guidance

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Now

• I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I mean this sincerely... and I don't know why, but there was a period of time that for some reason, whenever 'Charles in Charge' was on, I couldn't not watch it. I didn't like it and I didn't hate it. I just couldn't not watch.

  

  Dave Finkel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hate

• My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Different
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Night

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Respect
  • Perfect
  • Effort

• Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Earth
  • Fame
  • Canopies