Dante Alighieri Quotes

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Desire

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Bad
  • You
  • Fighting

• My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Rock
  • Living
  • Complain

• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Believe
  • America
  • Understand

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Never
  • Crowded
  • Mile

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • House
  • Earth
  • Words

• If you truly believe in a united Jerusalem, deeds have to be more than words. We need a real united Jerusalem. It takes determination, audacity, and money to provide full services and law enforcement in the entire city.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Money

• A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Learn

• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Work
  • Women
  • Fighting

• I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Think
  • You
  • Ridiculous

• I am interested in the possibility that we are going to be wrong in the same way that history has indicated that mankind always is. It seems as though the history of ideas is the history of being wrong. And to me, that is a kind of continuum. It's a continual path that shows we don't always know something, but we're always shifting to a path that makes us feel more comfortable in the moment, even if that shift is wrong, and a new shift is destined to happen again.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Path

• I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• 'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm excited for the fans to hear that one.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Guy

• There is no point winning the semi if you don't win the final. It's as simple as that. No one will remember a big semifinal if you lose the final, so you have to do it all again.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Winning
  • Win
  • Final

• Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Road
  • Journey
  • Wood