Dante Alighieri Quotes

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

Dante Alighieri

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Brothers
  • Park
  • Bench

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• I'm tired of living in a police state.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Police
  • Living

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Up
  • Career
  • Man

• Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Television
  • Try
  • Box

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Time
  • Work
  • Success

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
  • Listen
  • Liking

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Done
  • Political
  • Pleasure

• I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson

• But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Up
  • May
  • Try

• We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • World
  • Fashion
  • Liberty