Dante Alighieri Quotes

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.

Dante Alighieri

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• 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.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• 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.

  

  Rand Beers
  • May
  • Business
  • Remember

• Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Today
  • Death
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• 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.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• 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.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Political
  • 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.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Yourself

• It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Way
  • Reason
  • 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.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Country
  • Vote
  • Voting

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • War

• She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • She
  • Tree

• There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Art

• In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Party
  • Defection
  • Incites

• One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dead

• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Desire
  • Slavery
  • Slave

• Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

  

  John Milton
  • Conscience
  • Despair
  • Wakes

• There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pride
  • Envy
  • Despair