Dante Alighieri Quotes

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

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• I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Me
  • Shoe
  • Takes

• I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • World
  • Matter
  • Seeing

• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Art
  • True

• Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Fighting
  • Journey
  • Rose

• By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • World
  • Worry

• Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Selfish

• You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Guy

• The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

  

  Neil Postman
  • People
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• You don't do classics with a Texas accent.

  

  Powers Boothe
  • Texas

• The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Good

• There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • People
  • Dark
  • Lonely

• Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Positive

• I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• 'The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.'

  

  Brandon Sanderson
  • Purpose

• I knew I had to be sure-footed about the issues I was talking about. When you're twenty-nine years old, who the hell is going to think you're credible? It wasn't enough to have ideas; I had to know my facts. I had to demonstrate command from the minute I started running. I understood that was the test I had to pass.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Running

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Choose
  • Enmity
  • Brothers And Sisters

• Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.

  

  John Rawls
  • Men
  • Justice

• Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Men
  • Way
  • Popular

• He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!

  

  George Harrison The Beatles
  • Together
  • Song
  • Balance

• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Annoyed
  • Wisest
  • Loss Of Time