Dante Alighieri Quotes

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Good
  • Very
  • Sciences

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Family
  • Think
  • Period

• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • War
  • Man
  • Creative

• Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtues
  • Modesty
  • Seldom

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Government
  • End
  • Taxes

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
  • Wealth

• When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • School
  • High
  • City

• Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Truth Is

• The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Today
  • Years
  • Students

• I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Time
  • School
  • Potential

• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Time
  • Done
  • Movie

• 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Kind
  • Drama
  • Own

• The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Men
  • Society

• The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Time
  • May
  • Light

• I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • Done
  • Mirror

• Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

  

  Lowell Thomas
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Purpose

• Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Wind