Dante Alighieri Quotes
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
Quotes to Explore
-
Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
-
Think and grow rich.
-
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
-
In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
-
Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
-
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
-
I am strictly against remaking a movie.
-
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
-
When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
-
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
-
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
-
It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
-
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
-
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
-
Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
-
She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
-
There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
-
I never hugged him, I bombed him.
-
I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
-
I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.
-
I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.
-
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
-
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
-
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
