Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
Zahi Hawass -
Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
E. W. Howe -
I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
Karen Maitland -
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
Nancy Gibbs -
After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
Halle Berry
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I have no secrets.
Larry David -
I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
Beau Bridges -
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis -
There are few secrets in football. So execute.
Hank Stram -
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Zygmunt Bauman -
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Idries Shah
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Nan Fairbrother -
It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry -
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
Xenocrates -
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
Lisa Unger -
Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Aristotle -
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
I'm confused that there is a lack of faith in listening to and deciding what is a great song and instead going for these formulaic, bad songs over and over again. But that's what happened when people from beverage companies bought record labels and radio stations as opposed to people who love music owning record labels.
Patty Griffin -
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli