Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying...

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Tell the truth.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Movie

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • People
  • Way
  • Lives

• The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I'd love to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Truth Is

• You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Simple

• The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Truth Is

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Way
  • You
  • Most

• I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Way
  • Know
  • Myself

• When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Truth
  • Start
  • Conversation

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Death
  • Christian
  • Belief

• I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Character
  • Irish

• Some people debut and beat John Cena. Some people debut and lose to R-Truth. That happened to me by count out. So, everything is different.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • People
  • Different
  • Truth

• For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying...

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Truth
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  • Holding