Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • God
  • Result
  • Actions

• I feel alive, fit and active. I have no plans for retirement. My only concession to getting a little older is that I like to have a cat-nap in the afternoon. After that, I can push on through anything.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Feel
  • Cat
  • Retirement

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Each is responsible for his own actions.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • Own
  • Actions
  • Responsible

• Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Faith
  • Actions

• I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Always
  • Actions
  • Hardships

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Terrible

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

  

  Ian Hart
  • See
  • Secret
  • Missing

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• The environment shapes people's actions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Environment
  • Actions

• There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  

  Otto Frank
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • History
  • Science
  • Beauty

• At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Plans

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• The wisest fool in Christendom.

  

  King James I
  • Fool
  • Christendom

• To keep your actions and your plans secret always has been a very good thing . .. Marcus Crassus said to one who asked him when he was going to move the army: 'Do you believe that you will be the only one not to hear the trumpet?

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Secret
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  • Plans