Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Realize
  • How
  • Anymore

• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Love
  • Truth

• The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Attention
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• Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Learn
  • Looks

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Up
  • Business
  • Changes

• Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Think
  • Wish

• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Talk
  • News
  • Radio

• When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Long
  • Home
  • Soul

• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Special

• The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • Harder
  • Rugby
  • Seats

• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opinion

• I don't think we should have to do a Mars mission on the basis of hysteria. I think we should do a Mars mission on the basis of a deliberate judgment that what we want to do is open up a new planet for humanity... that we are continuing to be a nation of pioneers.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • Judgment
  • Deliberate
  • Hysteria

• It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Always

• 'Cars' has been a godsend. I mean, I get paid to talk into a mic. Honestly, I had no idea it would become as big as it did. When I first got the part of Mater, it was actually a small part. I did the voicing for it, though, and the animators liked it so much they rewrote the original script so that Mater could be in it more.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Small
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  • Talk

• It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Opinion
  • Judgment
  • Wise Men