Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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• Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Better
  • Price
  • Jeans

• You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Luck
  • Opportunities
  • Step

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Men
  • Children
  • Morning

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • Search
  • Stock

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• My friendships are very important to me.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Me
  • Very

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • Price
  • Cheated

• We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Work
  • Price
  • Oil

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• I definitely think that touring is a really crazy lifestyle and makes it hard to live a normal life and have relationships and friendships.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Life
  • Live
  • Crazy

• You can't explain why people are friends and why those friendships last, but there certainly is magic in it. It's just something that you treasure.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fighting

• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  

  William Blake
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Price

• Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Live
  • Pain
  • Mysterious

• We got off to a good start, and I thought we wrestled well all day. The kids who did lose fought off getting pinned, and that was big for us.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Kids
  • Start
  • Lose

• ....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Price
  • Friendships
  • Acquired