Dante Alighieri Quotes

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

Dante Alighieri

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• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Been
  • Four
  • Seasons

• It is always your next move.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Next
  • Move

• I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Unique
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Hate

• Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Today
  • Night
  • Day

• I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Challenge

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • House
  • Dance
  • Gun

• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • People
  • Want
  • Always

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• I've been left at the altar now a couple of times.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Couple

• You live alone, creating your life as you go.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Live
  • Alone

• They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Why

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• My translation work has been pretty separate from my fiction, as it was basically an accidental side project that turned into a separate and parallel career.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Career

• We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Desire

• Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

  

  Ian Holloway
  • Good

• The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Time
  • Long
  • Light

• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Sea

• I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Light
  • Consumed
  • Presumed