Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
Nancy Pearcey -
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
Gary Oldman -
I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna -
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
Gail Simmons -
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
Barney Oliver -
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
Umberto Eco -
When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
Valerie June -
I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
Callan McAuliffe -
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
Iqbal Quadir -
I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.
Rachel McAdams -
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
AJ McLean -
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
Tavi Gevinson
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If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.
Anna Wintour -
Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.
Dick Van Patten -
If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
Seth Godin -
I would vote for a Mormon.
Matt Stone -
Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.
Rachel Grace Held -
When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli