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

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• 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

• What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Lost
  • Service
  • Clear

• 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 the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

  

  Jayne Mansfield
  • World
  • Feeling

• the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Work
  • Death

• Response when asked by a reporter if his ‘relationship with the governor is deteriorating' No, I think it’s pretty much consistent.

  

  Bill de Blasio
  • Pretty

• I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

  

  Amy Van Dyken
  • Body
  • Far
  • Pushing

• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Tradition
  • Advance
  • Seeds

• 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