Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!
Isaac Hayes
I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
Ed Koch
Go West, young man.
Aaron Burr
I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
Uzo Aduba
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
Madeleine Peyroux
I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
Mandy Patinkin
I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
Camilla Belle
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
Larry Elder
Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
Frank Crowninshield
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
Norman Vincent Peale
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
Al Pacino
I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
Javier Solana
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
Alan Sillitoe
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
