Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage...Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
Action Bronson -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
Dan Phillips -
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai -
I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
Callan McAuliffe
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
Cameron Russell -
When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
Valentina Zelyaeva -
There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
Edgar Winter -
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
Ian Anthony Dale
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
Victoria Pratt -
Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
Adam Cohen -
I like the language in Proust but not the context.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Sallust -
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution 13th, 14th, 15th were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.
Eustace Mullins -
They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Lupita Nyong'o -
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli