Dante Alighieri Quotes

Still desiring, we live without hope.

Dante Alighieri

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• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Mother
  • Friend

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

  

  Kanye West
  • Human
  • Pressure
  • Human being

• I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.

  

  Lance Armstrong

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• ...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Up

• If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Shakespeare is definitely my first love.

  

  Andre Holland

• All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

  

  Jerry Springer
  • Life

• I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Writing
  • Book

• These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Blow

• Still desiring, we live without hope.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Hope
  • Desiring