Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

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• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

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• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
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• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

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• There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

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• I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.

  

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• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

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• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

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• The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

  

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• He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity.

  

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• When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

  

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• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

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• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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