Dante Alighieri Quotes

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

Dante Alighieri

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Authority

• There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Nothing

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Violence
  • Movies
  • See

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Struggle
  • Luck

• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kind

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Family
  • Poetry

• Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Soul
  • Deep

• Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Words
  • Italian

• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up

• Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

  

  Fulton J. Sheen
  • Pride
  • Competition

• I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

  

  Christopher Lee

• People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • People
  • World
  • Enemy

• It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Pain

• Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• If I could play bass on it, it’d be alright.

  

  Chris Wolstenholme Muse
  • Play
  • Bass

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• There's fresh fish, and then there's fresh fish. Samoa is ranked as one of the best places for game fishing in all the world, and runs thick in the waters off the island chain. In fact, it's used as an edible currency in local markets. The day I fished there, we caught loads of yellowfin.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • World
  • Game
  • Fishing

• Corinne Bailey Rae I listen to a lot, and I'll hear Desert Island Discs and quickly write down the name of a song, and it will open up a new area of music for me. I discovered an Argentinian guitarist, Jose Luis Bieito, on Classic FM.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Desert
  • Advance
  • Dwell